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Time Flies! These quotes are about the nature of time, and using your time well by avoiding meaningless busy work.
At every instant of every day, you are making a choice of how you spend your time. You have a very limited amount of time, so your time is extremely valuable. You can't do everything you consider doing, or everything others demand of you. You establish your real priorities in life by your choices of how you allocate your time. Whenever you spend time on some mindless activity, or meeting someone else's demands (that don't further your own life purpose), you have chosen your priorities -- but have you chosen well?
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The Butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it -
it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Haste is blind and improvident.
- Titus Livius (Livy)
Urgency is a grim taskmaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They don’t call them DEADlines for nothing - keep breathing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
How do geese know when to fly to the sun?
Who tells them the seasons?
How do we, humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us,
there is a voice within if only we would listen to it
that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.
- Bob Riley
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
. - Dale Carnegie
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy,
a time to frolic and a time to lay up food for the winter,
a time to receive and a time to give, a time to begin and a time to finish.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.
- attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr
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