Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Taylor, James

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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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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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Proverb, English

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Orben, Robert

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

37.

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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis