Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

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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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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Proverb, English

20.

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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Mark Twain

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

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 is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van