Motivational Quotes

Time

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Simplot, Jack

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Arthorne, John

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lincoln, Abraham