Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Malcolm Forbes

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Murdock, Mike

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

14.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

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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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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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

38.

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

Bible

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French