Sunday, February 1, 2009

Quotes - Time

Don't major in minor things.

Sometimes we can find ourselves busy doing important things instead of essential things.

It’s impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.” - Woody Allen

If Satan can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy.

Time Quote by Alexander Pope
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Time Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Ayn Rand:
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Sir John Lubbock:
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Earl of Chesterfield:
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

George Eliot:
It is never too late to become what you might have been.

Greg Hickman:
It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history.

John Leonard:
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry David Thoreau:
It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Mary O'Connor:
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

Lisa Alther:
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

George S. Patton:
A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.

William James:
Act as if what you do makes a difference.

Ancient Proverb:
Good habits result from resisting temptation.

T. S. Elliot:
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

Robert Updegraff:
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Unknown Author:
Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.

M. Scott Peck:
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Goethe:
We always have time enough if we will but use it aright.

Unknown Author:
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

John Randolph:
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Alan Lakein:
Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lord Chesterfield:
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Michael Althsuler:
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Steven Covey:
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Richard H. Nelson:
Never let yesterday use up today.

Unknown Author:
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Art Buchwald:
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Henry David Thoreau:
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Bonnie Prudden:
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again

Charles Bixton:
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Brian Tracy:
Your greatest resource is your time.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin:
You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time.

H. Jackson Brown:
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, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.

Benjamin Franklin:
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Thomas Edison:
Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits.

2 comments:

Valerie said...

That's a lot of great quotes. Great blog too. (I have come by before, but can't remember if I've commented or not.)

Janel Ruzzi said...

I love your time quotes--makes me feel guilty for sitting here reading them...