“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.”
“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.”
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
“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.”
“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.”
“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.”
“Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.”
“Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!”
“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
“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.”
“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.”
“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
“Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.”
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”
“Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”