Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Dane, Frank

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

Orben, Robert

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Plutarch

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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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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

28.

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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

31.

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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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Tracy, Brian

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

41.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Mark Twain

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph