Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Time

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

Blake, William

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

Dane, Frank

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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.

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

William Shakespeare

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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 what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Taylor, James

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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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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.