Motivational Quotes

Time

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Jef Mallett

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

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Lakein, Alan

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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.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paz, Octavio

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Polish

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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 longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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.

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis