Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Arthorne, John

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Orben, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Brown, John Mason

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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