Motivational Quotes

Time

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Bergman, Jack

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

Pitman

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mccullers, Carson

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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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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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 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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Covey, Stephen R.