Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Buxton, Charles

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

John F. Kennedy

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

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

15.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

31.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee