Motivational Quotes

Time

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Wells, H.G.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mark Twain

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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.

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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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Taylor, James

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

21.

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

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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Pitman

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

38.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

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

Proverb, French

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

43.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.