Quotes about time

"In all planing you make a list and you set priorities."

Lakein, Alan on time   

"Be intent on the perfection of the present day."

Law, William on time   

"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 on time   

"We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living."

Lerner, Max on time   

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

Levenson, Samuel on time
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"People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on time
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"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."

Lincoln, Abraham on time   

"One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life."

Litchfield, P. W. on time   

"How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us."

Longden, John on time   

"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on time   

"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

Lowell, Amy on time   

"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 on time   

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

Mann, Horace on time   

"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."

Mann, Horace on time   

"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 on time   

"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 on time   

"But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near."

Marvell, Andrew on time   

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

Marx, Groucho on time   

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

Marx, Karl on time
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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. on time   

"While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."

Mccullers, Carson on time   

"Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."

Mckain, Robert J. on time   

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

Mcluhan, Marshall on time   

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."

Meir, Golda on time   

"Time stays, we go."

Mencken, H. L. on time   

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

Montesquieu, Charles De on time   

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."

Murdock, Mike on time   

"Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on time
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"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on time
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"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator."

Orben, Robert on time   

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

Otway, Thomas on time   

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

Ovid on time   

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

Ovid on time
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"Nothing is swifter than our years."

Ovid on time   

"Time is the devourer of all things."

Ovid on time   

"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."

Paz, Octavio on time   

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time."

Pericles on time   

"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 on time   

"Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind."

Pitman on time   

"Time is the wisest of all counselors."

Plutarch on time