Time & Moments
455 quotes: 48 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
- Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
- Guilt lives in the past. Worry lives in the future. Peace lives in the present.
- Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early.
- He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
- He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
- He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
- He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
- He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
- Hold every hour in your grasp.SenecaCommonly attributed
- How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
- How you spend your time defines who you are.
- I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.
- I am always in haste, but never in a hurry; leisure and I have long taken leave of each other.
- I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
- I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
- I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
- I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
- I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
- I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
- I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand.
- I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.
- I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.
- I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
- I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange?
- I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
- I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well.
- If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I care for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
- If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
- If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that trouble you, but your own perception of them.
- If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
- If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!
- If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.
- If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take you 30 days. But if you give yourself three hours, it will take three hours. The same applies to your goals, ambitions, and potential.
- If you have time don't wait for time.
- If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
- If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
- If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.
- If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.