Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Tracy, Brian

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Gissing, George Robert

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben