Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

John F. Kennedy

10.

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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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! 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

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

18.

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

Plutarch

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

35.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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