Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Blake, William

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Pitman

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, French

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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

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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Simplot, Jack

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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

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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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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