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

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Dane, Frank

10.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

16.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

18.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

20.

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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Pitman

26.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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

32.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

38.

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.

39.

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

Frost, Robert

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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