Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Time

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Why kill time when one can employ it.
French Proverb

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz (1803–69) French Composer, Conductor

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield (1875—1959) American Industrialist

A man’s main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time
Unknown

That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
Robert C. Townsend (1920–98) American Businessman

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a free hold of a better value.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

The longest day soon comes to an end.
Common Proverb

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–89) English Poet, Writer

There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams (1911–83) American Playwright

A man’s time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produces more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles.
David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian

I have come to believe that there are only two kinds of experiences in life: those that stem from our Higher Self and those that have something to teach us. We recognize the first as pure joy and the latter as struggle. But they are both perfect. Each time we confront some intense difficulty, we know there is something we haven’t learned yet, and the universe is now giving us the opportunity to learn.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect

Keep forever in view the momentous value of life; aim at its worthiest use—its sublimest end; spurn, with disdain, those foolish trifles and frivolous vanities, which so often consume life, as the locusts did Egypt; and devote yourself, with the ardor of a passion, to attain the most divine improvements of the human soul. In short, hold yourself in preparation to make the transition to another life, whenever you shall be claimed by the Lord of the world.
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer

Time is like a snowflake—it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.
Anonymous

Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Hours fly, flowers die,
new days, new ways pass by,
Love stays.
Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman

Imagine that I am riding a bicycle toward you. As I approach an intersection I nearly collide, so it seems to me, with a horsedrawn cart. I swerve and barely avoid being run over. Now think of the event again, and imagine that the cart and the bicycle are both traveling close to the speed of light. If you are standing down the road, the cart is traveling at right angles to your light of sight. You see me, by reflected sunlight, traveling toward you. Would not my speed be added to the speed of light so that my image would get to you considerably before the image of the cart? Should you not see me swerve before you see the cart arrive? Can the cart and I approach the intersection simultaneously from my point of view, but not from yours? Could I experience a near collision with the cart while you perhaps see me swerve around nothing and pedal cheerfully on toward the town of Vinci? These are curious and subtle questions. They challenge the obvious. There is a reason that no one thought of them before Einstein. From such elementary questions, Einstein produced a fundamental rethinking of the world, a revolution in physics.
Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God’s. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, “You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself,” I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness—or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

I’m a lover of reality, not because I’m a spiritual woman, but because it hurts when I argue with what is. And I notice that I lose, 100 percent of the time.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

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