Time Quotes
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one
of the few things in this world that you get free of charge.
If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra
hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?....Unknown.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as
an unimportant day....Alexander Woollcott.
If you want to know your past -- look
into your present conditions. If you
want to know your future -- look into your
present actions....Buddhist Saying.
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....Maya Angelou.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our
destined end or way; but to act, that
each to-morrow finds us farther than
to-day....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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....Carl Sandburg.
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket
with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a
bucket that is deliberately kicked over....Paul J. Meyer.
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.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the
same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein....H. Jackson Brown.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark
should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled
by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me
in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper
function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days
in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time....Jack London.
Time is the scarcest resource....Peter F. Drucker.
There's time enough, but none to spare....Charles W. Chestnutt.
People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by
invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is...
a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator,
a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback
mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which
competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special
message system revealing how people really feel about each other
and whether or not they can get along....Edward T. Hall.
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.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time...It tells us
to tell each other right now that we love each other....Leo Buscaglia.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the
hours will take care of themselves....Lord Chesterfield.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you
value your time, you will not do anything with it....M. Scott Peck.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately
it kills all its pupils....Hector Berlioz.
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....Erich Fromm.
Time is like a movie. All people see it in its
full length. Some people fast forward or rewind
to their favorite times and skip the bad. Others
are stuck watching only bad acting. Some people
direct and all want to be stars but in the end
everyone gets cut from the script.....Unknown.
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your
life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell
these people how much they mean to you....Cheers.
My interest is in the future because I am going to
spend the rest of my life there....Charles F. Kettering.
Time is the fire in which we burn....Gene Roddenberry.
Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is
nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time;
you cannot borrow time; you can never tell how much time
you have left in the Bank of Life. Time is life....Israel Davidson.
Time is what prevents everything from
happening at once....John Archibald Wheeler.
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like
a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even
notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly....Ivan Turgenev.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also
set eternity in the hearts of men....Ecclesiastes 3:11.
If the events of these past days have taught us anything,
it is to honor the moment. Cherish those around you. Try to
find a balance between work and family. Contribute something
to your community, and above all, share the love you feel
for others each and every day....Dr. Jack Messina.
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern.
If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry:
But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of
may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can
never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere
nothing worth, or we had no Use for it....Benjamin Franklin.
Minutes are worth more than money.
Spend them wisely....Thomas P. Murphy.
Time is the wisest counselor....Pericles.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone
can start from now and make a brand new ending....Carl Bard.
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,'
is like saying, 'I don't want to'....Lao-Tzu.
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries
for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those
who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably
enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full
vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the
old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a
notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life....Charles Dickinson.
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time
stays, we go....Henry Austin Dobson.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage....
Even when a new century begins, it is only we
mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols....Thomas Mann.
The years teach much which the days
never know....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings
and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular
notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his
working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes
his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be
kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes
his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater
responsibilities -- and greater rewards -- are almost certain to come to
him....B. C. Forbes.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a
dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best....F. Lee Bailey.
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.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our
machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him....A. W. Tozier.
The best thing to spend on your children is your time....Louise Hart.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time....Unknown.
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.
Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for
that's the stuff life is made of....Benjamin Franklin.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast
landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves....Thornton Wilder.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow
a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day....Sanskrit Proverb.
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only
choose what you do at any given moment....James Gleick.
There's never enough time to do all the
nothing you want....Calvin and Hobbes.
Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every
moment of it. No idleness, no procrastination. Never put off
until tomorrow what you can do today....Philip Chesterfield.
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough....Rabindranath Tagore.
Hope is important...because it can make the present
moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow
will be better, we can bear a hardship today....Unknown.
Life offers two great gifts -- time, and the ability to
choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing
among those many options. If we do not choose to plan,
then we choose to have others plan for us....Richard I. Winword.
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note;
today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely....Unknown.
The time is always right to do what is right....Martin Luther King.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a
limited time on earth -- that we have no way of knowing when our
time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had....Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; new
things succeed, as former things grow old....Robert Herrick.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every
day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will
make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man....C. C. Colton.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in
the present. The present is the only time there is....Marianne Williamson.
If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from
the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life,
never to return,' you will become time conscious....A. B. Zu Tavern.
Time ripens all things. No man's born wise....Cervantes.
Temptation rarely comes in working
hours. It is in their leisure time
that men are made or marred....W. N. Taylor.
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future....Jesse Conrad.
LIVE YOUR LIFE EACH DAY as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly,
steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit
will serve as a fitting climax for the journey....Harold V. Melchert.
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more
time for you, because time is not a thing you have
lost. It is not a thing you ever had....James Gleick.
You may delay, but time will not....Benjamin Franklin.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done....Unknown.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in
practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which
one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed.
So it is with Time in one's life....Marcel Proust.
It is never too late to be what you might have been....George Eliot.
A little help at the right time is better
than a lot of help at the wrong time....Unknown.
For those who laugh, time is short, for those who weep,
time is long, for those who love, time is not....Unknown.
Make new friends, but keep old friends.
One is silver, the other is gold.
All of them are just like jewels.
Age will mellow and refine them....Unknown.
It takes time to build a castle....Irish Proverb.
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down
on time wasted in disapproving of others....Unknown.
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every
hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away like a lizard,
smooth, slippery, faithless. Hold every moment sacred. Give
each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine
awareness, each its true and due fulfillment....Thomas Mann.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so
is every moment of time....John Mason.
As if you could kill time without
injuring eternity....Henry David Thoreau.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has
advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.....Kahlil Gibran.
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.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial....Richard Ben Sapir.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time
to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time
to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time
to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to
mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a
time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time
to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a
time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to
love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace....Bible.
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a
superior longing for all time....Philip.
Time makes more converts than reason....Thomas Paine.
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