Quotes about time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

— Thomas Carlyle

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

— Graham Greene

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

— Thomas H. Huxley

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Alphonse De Lamartine

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

— James Russell Lowell

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

— Oscar Wilde

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

— Joseph Addison

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

— Louis Agassiz

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

— Maya Angelou

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

— John Arthorne

To choose time is to save time.

— Francis Bacon

Time is the measure of business.

— Francis Bacon

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

— Faith Baldwin

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

— J. G. Ballard

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

— Charles Baudelaire

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

— Arnold Bennet

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

— Arnold Bennett

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

— Thomas A. Bennett

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

— John Berger

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

— Jack Bergman

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

— Hector Louis Berlioz

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

— Bible

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

— Josh Billings

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

— Charles Bixton

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

— William Blake

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

— William Frederick Book

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

— Louis E. Boone

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

— Arthur Brisbane

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

— John Mason Brown

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

— Leo Buscaglia

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

— Charles Buxton

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

— Lord Byron

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

— Coco Chanel

Time and tide wait for no man.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Winston Churchill

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.

— Stephen R. Covey

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

— Stephen R. Covey

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

— Abraham Cowley

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

— Frank Dane

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

— Charles R. Darwin

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

— Charles Dickens

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

— Laertius Diogenes

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

— Austin Dobson

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

— Norman Douglas

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

— Peter F. Drucker

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.

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Peter F. Drucker

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.

— Peter F. Drucker

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.

— John Dryden

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

— Marguerite Duras

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.

— Henry Van Dyke

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.

— Meister Eckhart

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!

— Albert Einstein

All my possessions for a moment of time.

— Queen Elizabeth

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The surest poison is time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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?

— Ted W. Engstrom

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.

— Ted W. Engstrom

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

— Euripides

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

— Franklin Field

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

— Ian Fleming

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

— Shelby Foote

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that rises late must trot all day.

— Benjamin Franklin

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.

— Erich Fromm

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

— Robert Frost

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

— Merrick Furst

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

— Harold S. Geneen

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

— George Robert Gissing

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All time management begins with planning.

— Tom Greening

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.

— Andrew Grove

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

— Robert Half

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

— Robert Half