Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Plutarch

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

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Jef Mallett

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.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Pitman

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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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 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 nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

32.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David