Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dickens, Charles

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Lakein, Alan

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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 school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ovid

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.