Motivational Quotes

Time

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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Fleming, Ian

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

William Shakespeare

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Pitman

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

Lakein, Alan

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul