Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Ovid

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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

11.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

12.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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.

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar