Time & Moments
455 quotes: 48 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.George Bernard ShawSourced
- The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
- The only thing you have in your life is time. If you invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose.
- The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
- The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
- The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
- The present is the laboratory of the future.
- The present moment is a powerful deity.
- The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
- The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
- The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
- The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.Leo TolstoyCommonly attributed
- The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- The sun is new every day.
- The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
- The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.Nelson MandelaCommonly attributed
- The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
- The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
- The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
- The waste of time for want of planning its best uses is the costliest expenditure of our lives.
- The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip.
- The work of each day would be a pleasure if we would refrain from attempting to perform at the same time the work of to-morrow.
- There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
- There is a bunch of things we mean to do, and life is the time we spend meaning to do them.
- There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)
- There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
- There is no fatality which forces the Old World towards new catastrophe. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. They have within themselves the power to become free at any moment.
- There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onset of things.
- There is not a moment without some duty.
- There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous, since without it we can do nothing in this world. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst.
- There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
- There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
- There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
- There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
- Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.