Motivational Quotes

Time

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Arthorne, John

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

Lakein, Alan

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Polish

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Taylor, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Plutarch

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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

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul Klee

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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 don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.