Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

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

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Scottish Proverb

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.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Paz, Octavio

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bixton, Charles

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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 is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the only critic without ambition.