Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Time

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Ovid

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

10.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greene, Graham

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Brown, John Mason

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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 a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey