Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Blake, William

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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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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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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