Motivational Quotes

Time

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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.

10.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

12.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

13.

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

14.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

17.

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

Fleming, Ian

18.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

19.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

22.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

23.

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

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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.