Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Geneen, Harold S.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Bixton, Charles

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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.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

18.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

49.

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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey