Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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.

11.

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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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Plutarch

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb