Motivational Quotes

Time

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Time

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul