Motivational Quotes

Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Brown, John Mason

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

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

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Gissing, George Robert

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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.

28.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Taylor, James

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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 soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, French

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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