Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Gissing, George Robert

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Dickens, Charles

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

11.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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

18.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Proverb, English

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Simplot, Jack

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.