Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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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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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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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Blake, William

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Arthorne, John

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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 that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward