Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Plutarch

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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.