A day may sink or save a realm.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

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

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
~ William Frederick Book

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

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time
~ Anonymous

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.
~ Anonymous

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.
~ Bertrand Russell

All my possessions for a moment of time.
~ Queen Elizabeth

All time management begins with planning.
~ Tom Greening

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
~ Harold Rosenberg

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.
~ Anonymous

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
~ Chinese Proverb

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
~ William Shakespeare

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

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
~ William Law

But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
~ Andrew Marvell

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~ Edward Hoagland

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
~ Thomas Otway