Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Orben, Robert

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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 money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert