Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

10.

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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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

13.

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Book, William Frederick

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Cowley, Abraham

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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.

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Pitman

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

40.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare