Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, English

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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

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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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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greene, Graham

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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.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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 want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Douglas, Norman

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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 first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time