TIME

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow.” You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who! Are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE-SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.

And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present!!!

The past is history, the future is a mystery,

now is a gift – that’s why it’s called the present.

[ Anonymous ] (Source: MieNet’s Quote Collection, at http://www.mienet.net.)

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack,’ June 1746

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.

Anonymous

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

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 (1878 – 1967)

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, ‘A Woman of Independent Means’

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603)

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Mansfield Park

If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough.

Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’

John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 – 1990)

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee (1879 – 1940)

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch (46 AD – 120 AD)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin (1840 – 1917)

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 – 1966), “Unkempt Thoughts”

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus (372 BC – 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

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

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

Hope one of these is what you are looking for! I found them at www.quotationspage.com

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

To choose time is to save time.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our

hand – and melting like a snowflake.

Nothing is as far away as a minute ago.

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.

Lost time is never found again.

To everything there is a season, and a purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes…ch.lll v.1-8

you can not waist money, there is always more money

you can not waist energy, you can always get more energy

but time is the one thing you can not get more of

“Don’t waste time. It’s the stuff life is made of.”

Ben Franklin

Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.

Learn as if you’ll live forever.

(thanks Jaz)

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