Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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.

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.

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 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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Brown, John Mason

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb, English

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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?

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