Best time & our-time Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.”

“Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.”

Matter Purpose Time No Matter What Spending Our Time

Book:The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Source: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”

World Giving May Children Time Kindness Mankind Relation Praise Our Children Worthy Riches Our Time Reserves Prey Acts Of Kindness Bounty

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective”

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.”

Time Feet Our Time Rapids

Author:Ovid

“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!”

Law Time Hate Sacrifice Demand I Hate Sells Property Slave Our Time Customs Boast

Author:Fanny Burney

“God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.”

Giving Two Moments Shows Together Time Economy Wise Ought Management Our Time Providence

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.”

Ifs May Long Care Time Given Loss Regret Eternity Take Care Our Time

Author:Francois Fenelon

“There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Mind Time Common Security Fool Gratitude Accounts Debt Our Time My Time Civility

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

Way Two Character Time Results Attitude Greatness Positive Attitude Our Time Two Things Character Building Good Character Mental Attitude Winning Attitude Building Character Adversity And Character Personality Flaws Best Character

Book:Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

Use Funny Time Tools Presidential Our Time My Time Time Management Couches Spending Time Managing Time Use Of Time

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

Writing Political Time Politics Politician Speech Defense Our Time Thrive Euphemism Political Speeches Political Language Political Writing Speech And Writing

Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”

Men Whole Body Would Be Science Time Given Chance Path Creation Hard Work Accounts Crowds Our Time Given A Chance Pasteur

Author:Jean Rostand

“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”

Funny Time Our Time My Time Time Management Spares Spending Time Spare Time Time Goes On Time Is Money

Author:Josh Billings

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

Inspirational Years Time Waiting Teach Greater Strange Capacity Patience Maturity Our Time Great Patience Patience And Waiting Short Patience Being Patience Time And Patience Time Patience

Book:A wreath of roses

Source: A wreath of roses

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

Used Time Trouble Future Used To Be Our Time Our Future Time Management Past Present And Future Past Present Future Great Future

Author:Paul Valery

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

Use Wisdom Time Power Our Time Time Management Watson

Author:Thomas J. Watson

“Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.”

Ifs Funny Time Wish Half Achievement Our Time Insperational Funny Motivational Wishing For Things

Author:Alexander Woollcott

“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”

Needs Children War Reason Time Media Politician Our Time

Author:Howard Zinn

“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.”

Reality Time Environment Planets Environmental Supreme Vulnerability Our Time Wilderness Our Planet Our Environment Green Living Eco Friendly

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”

Life Inspirational Firsts Made Whole Shows Hands Motivational Age Lasts Time Grows Half Youth Aging Planning Our Time Trust In God Growing Old Funny Marriage Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Robert Browning

“No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.”

Believe Matter Time Belief Religious Prayer Depends Future Claims No Matter What Our Time Preacher Preaching Dependence

Author:Jim Cymbala

“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

“The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.”

Wells May Time Alcohol Our Time Decline Depressing Alcoholism Most Depressing

Author:Luis Bunuel

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Source: The Magus

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

Inspirational Dream Time Memories Machines Our Time Time Machine

Author:Jeremy Irons

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

Love Life Firsts God Christian Time Order Fall Interest Religious Christianity Lord Our Lives Demand Claims Affection Priorities Pursue God Love Our Time Our Love God First Put God First

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”

Men Time Suffering Names Speak Simple Wise Mystery Conflict Tasks Experience Command Our Time Toil Fellowship Being Wise Ineffable

Book:The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

“What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.”

Time Pride Ambition Late Our Time Bullets Tow

Author:Porfirio Diaz

Running Time Genius Our Time Rejected Stereotype Popular Song

Author:Robert Hughes

“Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.”

May Time Sports Bird Our Time Prey Amorous Languish Birds Of Prey

Author:Andrew Marvell

“Parliaments are the great lie of our time.”

Lying Time Our Time Parliament

Author:Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“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.”

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