Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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

John F. Kennedy

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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

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

Chanel, Coco

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pitman

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Arthorne, John

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

Greene, Graham

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder