Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Dickens, Charles

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

10.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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 woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

18.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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 is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

34.

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Book, William Frederick