Quotes about Time

 

 

“What we love to do we find time to do.

-John L. Spalding

 

 

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

-Rick Warren

 

 

"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. " 

-2 Peter 3:8b

 

 

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and 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

 

 

"Time is not measured by the passing of the years, but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

 

 

"You will never find time for anything.  If you want the time, you must make it."

-Charles Buxton

 

 

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

-John Milton

 

 

"Patience with others is Love; Patience with self is Hope; Patience with God is Faith."

-Adel Bestauras

 

 

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

-Dale Carnegie

 

 

"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

 

 

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is eternity."

-Unknown

 

 

"It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends.  Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it."

-Agnes Repplier

 

 

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"Will you remember today, ten years from now? Maybe, maybe not. Just imagine, though, how full your life could be if only you would attempt to make each day a memorable one."

- Ralph Marston

 

 

"It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset."

- Erynn Miller

 

 

"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows."

- Alexandra Stoddard

 

 

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

- Unknown

 

 

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a wife, a friend, a child, or a parent."

- Barbara Bush

 

 

"We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives."

- Jonathan Sacks

 

 

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-Mark Twain

 

 

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