Time is an enigmatic and indispensable component of our existence, governing our actions and decisions. It’s the silent rhythm that orchestrates our lives, from our daily routines to our most profound moments. Its significance lies in its irrevocability, teaching us to cherish every moment. Understanding and respecting time, therefore, can lead to a more fulfilling and purposeful life.
1. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” – Aristotle
2. “No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” – Mary Kay Ash
3. “Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.” – Jules Verne
4. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou
5. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey
7. “The time I kill is killing me.” – Mason Cooley
8. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – C. S. Lewis
9. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
10. “No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.” – Meir Kahane
11. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.” – Virgil
12. “Time is flying never to return.” – Virgil
13. “By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.” – Malcolm Forbes
14. “When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!” – Bobby Knight
15. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden
16. “I took some time out for life.” – James L. Brooks
17. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
18. “Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” – Epictetus
19. “We have not the time to take our time.” – Eugene Ionesco
20. “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” – Samuel Smiles
21. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
22. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
23. “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” – George Bernard Shaw
24. “O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
25. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” – Delmore Schwartz
26. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer
27. “Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” – E. B. White
28. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” – Michael LeBoeuf
29. “Time was God’s first creation.” – Walter Lang
30. “There’s time enough, but none to spare.” – Charles W. Chesnutt
31. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.” – Casey Stengel
32. “You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” – James M. Barrie
33. “You never know the plan. You never know what’s going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.” – Morgan Wallen
34. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
35. “It takes a long time to become young.” – Pablo Picasso
36. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
37. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
38. “Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.” – Giordano Bruno
39. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg
40. “The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time.” – Catfish Hunter
41. “Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.” – Ivan Turgenev
42. “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” – Anne Sullivan
43. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
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