Motivational Quotes

Time

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Time

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bible

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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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

18.

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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

21.

You love what you find time to do.

22.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

34.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

35.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

36.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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.

39.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

41.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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 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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.