Motivational Quotes

Time

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Wells, H.G.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Pitman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Blake, William

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

39.

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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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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