Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

11.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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 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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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

25.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Pitman

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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

49.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian