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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Spencer, Herbert

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Bible

16.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

18.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

19.

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

Bonnie Friedman

20.

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

Orben, Robert

21.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Dane, Frank

25.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

31.

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

32.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

33.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

35.

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

36.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

37.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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.

40.

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

Townsend, Robert

41.

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

Maria Edgeworth

42.

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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee