Motivational Quotes

Time

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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

William Shakespeare

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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 the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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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

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Simplot, Jack

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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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