Quotes About Time

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

I set out on my trip, imbued with the spirit of old Omar: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!

As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

How strange it is our little perception of life. The child says 'when I am a big boy.. The big boy says When I grow up And grown up he says When I am married The thought then changes to When im able to retire. Then when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed, a cold wind seems to sweep over it. Somehow he has missed it all and it is gone, Life, we learn too long is in the living.

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

Think," said Dante, "that this day will never dawn again." Life is slipping away with incredible speed. We are racing through space at the rate of nineteen miles every second. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

For life is too short to be little.

Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!

Passarei por este caminho apenas uma vez. Por isso, se existe qualquer bem ou qualquer gesto de bondade que eu possa fazer em benefício de qualquer ser humano, que eu faça agora. Que eu não adie ou deixe de lado, pois não passarei aqui novamente.

Cuando empezamos la jomada, hay ante nosotros cientos de cosas que sabemos que tenemos que hacer durante el día, pero, si no las tomamos una a una y hacemos que pasen por el día lentamente y a su debido ritmo, como pasan los granos por el estrecho cuello del reloj de arena, estamos destinados a destruir nuestra estructura física o mental, sin escapatoria posible

Quando lhe perguntei por que fez isso, ela respondeu: "Assim eu não teria tempo para a tristeza e a preocupação.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today

Even a Mongolian idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back 180 million years to change those tracks.

the order was accepted, produced and delivered on time.

Let me repeat that: "If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

The biblical day begins at sundown—the early evening, we might call it. It is the end that is also the beginning.

we are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

This can also be a time of confession, in which you ask for the strength to deal with the failures you experience day by day.