Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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.

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Chanel, Coco

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Bergman, Jack

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Greene, Graham

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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 is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Pitman

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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