Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Field, Franklin

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.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ovid

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

10.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

11.

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

Wells, H.G.

12.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

13.

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

Bonnie Friedman

14.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

15.

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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

18.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

19.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Jonson, Ben

26.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

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.

29.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Bixton, Charles

34.

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

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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

40.

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

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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 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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French