Quotes About Time

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?

What's first-best time to negotiate?" he asked. "When you're certain to lose. Then you may salvage something, right?

No one would ever find time to read such a collection, but libraries like that are not intended to be read, only envied.

Youth departs: There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain, But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.   Stoddart, And It Never Comes Again

Guarda, pues, silencio, hijo mío, y a su tiempo verás que el mayor de los regalos es conocerme de verdad. Y aunque te parezca que mis respuestas llegan terriblemente tarde, mi más preciosa respuesta de todas sigue siendo … Espera".1

God reminds us that doing ministry without taking time to feed off His Holy Word will leave us frustrated and unfulfilled in ministry.

La vida es demasiado corta como para ponerle los grilletes y la bola de un corazón rencoroso.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Flow is engagement on steroids. Flow is that state of being in which time stands still, you're totally engaged in an activity, and the challenge of that particular activity matches up with your skill—so you're neither bored because it's too easy nor anxious because it's too hard.

Adult ducks do not require a lot of time-consuming care or specialized facilities.

And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

the future is no place to place your better days

John Maxwell says a budget (for your money) is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Managing time is the same; you will either tell your day what to do or you will wonder where it went.

Life is not a snapshot, it's a filmstrip.

Goals Must Have a Time Limit Goals without a time limit are unable to be broken down into micro goals to measure your progress, to observe your traction. You might say, "I want to write a book." Great, when? In twenty years? In twenty months? If you don't put a deadline on the goal it will never happen and you will get to eat the bitter fruit of regret.

Ninety percent of making the right decision is the gathering of information. The bigger the decision, the more time you take, the more options you gather, and the more informed you should become.

Wealth-building is a crockpot, not a microwave.