Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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

Blake, William

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

10.

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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Jef Mallett

15.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

16.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

28.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lakein, Alan

30.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

31.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

35.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

38.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

42.

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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

48.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

49.

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

50.

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