Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Bixton, Charles

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Blake, William

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Zappa, Frank

11.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, John Mason

18.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

19.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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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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.

23.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

24.

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

25.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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

27.

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

Bonnie Friedman

28.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

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

30.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Wells, H.G.

32.

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

33.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

34.

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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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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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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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

38.

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

Otway, Thomas

39.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

43.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

44.

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

45.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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

48.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

49.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

50.

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

Churchill, Winston