Motivational Quotes

Time

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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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

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Schwartz, Delmore

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Pitman

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

John F. Kennedy

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Zappa, Frank

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca