Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Time

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 most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Blake, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

Proverb, French

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Lakein, Alan