Motivational Quotes

Time

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rohn, Jim

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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 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

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

Pitman

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Baltasar Gracian

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lakein, Alan

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Plutarch

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian