Motivational Quotes

Time

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

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

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

12.

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

13.

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

Paz, Octavio

14.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

21.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

22.

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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

24.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

28.

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

Blake, William

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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

37.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

John F. Kennedy

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

41.

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

42.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Arthorne, John

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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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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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