Time Management Quotes - Page 11

• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Losing, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

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• Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

  Joseph Addison

  Time, Eternity

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

  Herbert Spencer

  Time, Men, Always Trying

  "The Dictionary of Essential Quotations" by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, (p. 154), 1983.

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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch

  Time, Counselor, Wisest

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• Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Thinking, Quiet

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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Passing Away, All Things

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.28, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, New Year, Time

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Time, Fame, Born

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

  Arnold Bennett

  Good Morning, Time, Purses

  "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day".

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• 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

  Time, War, Men

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• 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

  Time, Preparation, Routine

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• Make a good use of the present.

  Horace

  Time, Use

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• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sun, Forget

  Ben Jonson (1816). “The works of Ben Jonson: With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir”, p.419

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

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Hands, People

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

  Ovid

  Time, Words Of Wisdom, Return

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

  Ovid

  Time, Years, Reign

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• Time is the devourer of all things.

  Ovid

  Time, All Things

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• Nothing is swifter than our years.

  Ovid

  Time, Years

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• I took some time out for life.

  James L. Brooks

  New Year, Time, Unfaithful

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• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Sleep, Eight

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• Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

  Giordano Bruno

  Mother, Time, Father

  "The Ash Wednesday Supper". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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