Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Plutarch

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Book, William Frederick

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.