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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON TIME 1
The organized person... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus (525-456 BC, Greek dramatist)
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, Swiss-born American naturalist)
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
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 (1928-, African-American poet, writer, performer) Author's website: www.mayaangelou.com
Time is a very shadow that passeth away.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.
John Arthorne (American researcher)
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992, Russian-born American author)
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Time is the measure of business.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
To choose time is to save time.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
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 (1821-1867, French poet)
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 (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
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 (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)
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
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going.... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, British novelist)
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 (1867-1931, British novelist)
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 (1926-, British actor, critic)
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 (1803-1869, French conductor, music critic, author)
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bixton
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Dietrich Bonboeffer
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945, German Lutheran pastor and theologian)
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 (American author)
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)
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 (1899-1986, Argentinean author)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
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 (American editor, columnist)
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Mason Brown (1800-1859, American militant abolitionist)
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, American educationist)
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 (1788-1824, British poet)
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952, British author)
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People")
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
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 (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed.... Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Frank Dane
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes (3rd century Greek philosopher, writer,)
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Austin Dobson (1840-1921, British author)
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 (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
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 (1852--1933, American protestant clergyman and writer)
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
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 (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth (1926-, British Queen)
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
William E. Gladstone (1809-1888, British liberal Prime Minister, statesman)
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 (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
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 (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
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 (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
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 (American religion and social leader)
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 (American religion and social leader)
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
William Feather (1888-19, American writer, businessman)
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
Franklin Field
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.
Robert M. Fine
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Ian Fleming (1908-1964, British writer, "James Bond")
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote (1916-, American historian, novelist)
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford (1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company)
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
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