Quotes About Time

The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed its cud like hanging out with dogs [...] was something it always did. Maybe it thought other sheep were boring and that it had finally found its spiritual home.

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

How to tell a story—how to make it go on and on to fill the time—how to get interested in it yourself so it would be interesting to your listeners, or listener—all that came back to me

The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.

I am not strong enough, she said. She had never said this aloud to anyone before—anyone but her bees. I know too little, and I do not learn fast enough. And there are not enough hours in the day. And the land has been bent away from true too far and for too long.

one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery

Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Focus.

In order to awaken your best life, it's important that you "die while you are alive." Most people live as if they have all the time in the world. They wish they had more time in their days and yet they waste the time they have. They put off living until some event in the future occurs. In order to awaken to your best life, every day should be lived as if it were your last day on the planet.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.

Remarkable people are priority-driven. This is the secret of time mastery. Build your days around your priorities and you will play in rare air.

We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.

Yogi Raman preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams, you take time away from your own.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them

Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Sleep is like a drug," he explained. "Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.

All that's real is the moment right in front of you. Don't miss that moment, because that's where your life is.

Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years.

Most people try to be all things to all people and, in so doing, achieve nothing. Elite performers have a laser-like focus on their highest priorities and an acute awareness of the best uses of their time. In fact, they build their whole lives around the activities that offer them the highest return on investment. They are good at saying no.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." —Steve Jobs

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them." —Amy Carmichael

And saying that you don't have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas — eventually it will catch up with you.