Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Buxton, Charles

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Greene, Graham

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

30.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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 is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

41.

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

Bible

42.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Baltasar Gracian

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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.