Motivational Quotes

Time

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

- Engstrom, Ted W.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

10.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

11.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

12.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

16.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

18.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

20.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

21.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

27.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

29.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

31.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

32.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

41.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

42.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

44.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.