Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Arthorne, John

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You love what you find time to do.

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

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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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 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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan