Motivational Quotes

Time

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

- Tavern, A. B. Zu

Best Quotes about Time

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

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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 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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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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 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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.