Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

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

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Simplot, Jack

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Bixton, Charles

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress