Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Arthorne, John

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

10.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

11.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

12.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

13.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

14.

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

Jonson, Ben

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

18.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

19.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

20.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

21.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

22.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

23.

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

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

26.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

28.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

29.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

30.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

31.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

32.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

34.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

35.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

40.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

41.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

44.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

46.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar