Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Blake, William

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

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

Greene, Graham

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Plutarch

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Field, Franklin

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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 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 is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

48.

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

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee