Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Plutarch

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

Levenson, Samuel

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.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

William Shakespeare

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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