Motivational Quotes

Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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.

10.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

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

Pericles

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

30.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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

Maria Edgeworth

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Plutarch