Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Bixton, Charles

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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 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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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All time management begins with planning.