Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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 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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

15.

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

Proverb, Polish

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Pericles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pitman

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho