Motivational Quotes

Time

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Marx, Groucho

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Mccullers, Carson

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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