Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Blake, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Buxton, Charles

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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

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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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