Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Paul Klee

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.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

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

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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.

12.

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb