Quotes about time

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Fleming, Ian on time
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"Longevity conquers scandal every time."

Foote, Shelby on time   

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

Ford, Henry on time   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on time   

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

Franklin, Benjamin on time   

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"He that rises late must trot all day."

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

Frost, Robert on time
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"The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time."

Furst, Merrick on time   

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

Geneen, Harold S. on time   

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

Gissing, George Robert on time   

"Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time   

"We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time
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"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time
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"All time management begins with planning."

Greening, Tom on time   

"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 on time   

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

Half, Robert on time
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"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

Half, Robert on time   

"Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide."

Halifax, Edward F. on time
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"Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician."

Harper, Lucille S. on time   

"Time is the rider that breaks youth."

Herbert, George on time   

"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 on time   

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

Hodgson, Ralph on time   

"Make a good use of the present."

Horace on time   

"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

Howe, Edgar Watson on time   

"What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal."

Howe, John on time   

"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 on time   

"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. on time   

"Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth."

Huxley, Thomas H. on time   

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

Iacocca, Lee on time
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"Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on time   

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

Jonson, Ben on time   

"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 on time   

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

Kennedy, John F. on time
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"We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

King Jr. Martin Luther on time
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"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker"

La Bruyere, Jean De on time
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?"

Lakein, Alan on time