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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Taylor, James

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

31.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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