Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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

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

Murdock, Mike

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Zappa, Frank

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Taylor, James

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

Greene, Graham

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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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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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

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Brown, John Mason

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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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