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.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

19.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

22.

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

Lakein, Alan

23.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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.

Bennet, Arnold

25.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

27.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

28.

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

Bergman, Jack

29.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

30.

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

31.

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.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

33.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

34.

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

35.

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

Book, William Frederick

36.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

37.

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?

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

40.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

41.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

42.

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

Ovid

43.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

44.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

47.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

48.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

49.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

50.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand