Motivational Quotes

Time

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Time

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Book, William Frederick

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Hodgson, Ralph

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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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

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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 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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.