Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Book, William Frederick

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

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

Arthorne, John

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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