Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Jonson, Ben

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

You love what you find time to do.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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 will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

33.

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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

36.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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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