Motivational Quotes

Time

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

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

Arthorne, John

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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 the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Orben, Robert

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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

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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.