Motivational Quotes

Time

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lakein, Alan

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Plutarch

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dane, Frank

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham