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

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

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

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

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

Taylor, James

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

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Bible

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

20.

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

Jonson, Ben

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.