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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Fleming, Ian

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Taylor, James

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

Dane, Frank

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

40.

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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Orben, Robert