Motivational Quotes

Time

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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Arthorne, John

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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Orben, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Murdock, Mike

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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