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

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

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.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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

11.

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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Jonson, Ben

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Proverb, Polish

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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 is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin