Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dane, Frank

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Orben, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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 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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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.