Quotes about time

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all."

Carlyle, Thomas on time   

"The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it."

Carlyle, Thomas on time
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"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."

Chanel, Coco on time
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"Time and tide wait for no man."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on time   

"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in."

Chesterfield, Lord on time   

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

Chesterfield, Lord on time   

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."

Chesterfield, Lord on time   

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

Churchill, Winston on time
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"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."

Cicero, Marcus T. on time   

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man."

Colton, Charles Caleb on time   

"Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities."

Colton, Charles Caleb on time   

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

Cowley, Abraham on time   

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on time
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"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."

Dane, Frank on time   

"A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life."

Darwin, Charles R. on time
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"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

Dickens, Charles on time
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"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Diogenes, Laertius on time   

"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go."

Dobson, Austin on time
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"One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out."

Douglas, Norman on time   

"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed"

Drucker, Peter F. on time
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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. on time   

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

Drucker, Peter F. on time   

"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. on time
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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 on time   

"The best way to fill time is to waste it."

Duras, Marguerite on time   

"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 on time
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"Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time."

Eckhart, Meister on time   

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!"

Einstein, Albert on time
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"All my possessions for a moment of time."

Elizabeth, Queen on time   

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

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"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

"The surest poison is time."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

"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 on time
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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. on time   

"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. on time   

"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

Euripides on time   

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

Field, Franklin on time
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