Quotes About Time

But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.

it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.

My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.

It is the place and time for dark deeds, for the heart grows savage; and if two enemies met in the hollow of the mist only one would go away.

Times slows when your life is in danger. Every second takes a minute to pass, and even the smallest event gets chiseled into memory. (95)

El ayo quiere que Pasión espere hasta el principio del año venidero para recibir sus mejores cosas; mas Pasión todo lo quiere al momento. Paciencia al contrario, esta resignado esperar.

As the saying of the wise says, 'All this world promotes is vanity.' (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. – Eccles. 11:8)

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings we cannot keep ourselves from wanting.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result

Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time—either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be a day away from being realized.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

God prepares leaders in a crockpot, not a microwave. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparation, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3

You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn't start now.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

And as novelist Robert Louis Stevenson advised, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.