Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

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

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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.

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

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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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

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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