Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Pericles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Proverb, English

12.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

13.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

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

Plutarch

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo