Quotes About Time

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eter1nal youth.

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect Time.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is, at the end of the day, No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say, That my time has been properly spent.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or retarded.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.