Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

22.

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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

26.

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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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

28.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

30.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

31.

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

32.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Taylor, James

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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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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

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

40.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

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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 cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Orben, Robert

46.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.