Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Greene, Graham

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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Kennedy, John F.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Townsend, Robert

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Wanamaker, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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