Time Quotes
Over the last year, I have been really evaluating my time and what I want to make of it. On this journey, I have grown into a new person that not only values other people’s lives and goals, but my own as well. Life is about having a balance. Time plays a key role in molding this balance. It is up to us (me) to ensure our actions, mind, and time are supporting this balance. Here are some things to keep in mind…
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”
Emily Dickinson
“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”
Marguerite Duras
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
Margaret Peters
“There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
Jack Bergman
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
“The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.”
Unknown
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
Jean Racine
“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.”
John Dewey
“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
“It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
Stephen King, The Green Mile
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
G.K. Chesterton
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
Pope John Paul II
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
Leonard Bernstein
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh
“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
Mario Benedetti
“Own time or time will own you.”
Brian Norgard
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
“Time did heal wounds, but not scars. Never scars.”
Michelle Griep, Lost in Darkness
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
Seneca
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin
As we get settled into the year, I hope you evaluate your time and see where life can be more fulfilling for you. You and your time are valuable, important, and meant to be your own. We live in an era where the sky is the limit. It just takes a little faith, trust, and maybe a tiny bit of pixie dust… if there is any on hand.
Thank you so much for checking out my post. I hope you are having a great day. I will see you soon with something new!