Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Spencer, Herbert

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Lakein, Alan

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Taylor, James

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

Plutarch

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.