Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

William Shakespeare

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Tracy, Brian

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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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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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John