Time & Moments
455 quotes: 48 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day.
- Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
- Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
- Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.
- Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.SenecaSourced
- All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.Baltasar GraciánSourced
- Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
- Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that on which one has not laughed.
- Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
- Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
- One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
- One hour of focus can undo days of distraction.
- One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.
- One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- One of the main seats of our weakness lies in this very notion, that what we do at the moment cannot matter much; for that we shall be able to alter and mend and patch it just as we like by-and-by.
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
- One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
- Opportunities are easily lost, with difficulty found.
- Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
- Opportunities should never be lost, because they can hardly be regained.
- Opportunity is a golden word, and is itself more precious than rubies.
- Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
- Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it.
- Own time, or time will own you.
- People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
- People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
- People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
- People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes again and again. They go fast but not far.
- Play what you’ve got and don’t waste time worrying about what you don’t.
- Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future.SenecaCommonly attributed
- Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
- Remember that the time once yours can never be so again.
- Remember then: there is only one time that is important--Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
- Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
- Sands form the mountains, moments make the year.
- Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.
- Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.