Motivational Quotes

Time

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Tracy, Brian

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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

Pericles

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

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lakein, Alan