Precious Time Quotes:

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,

- James Hansen

source: "Here comes the sun: chilling verdict on a climate going to extremes" by By James Hansen, www.theage.com.au. August 7, 2012.

topic: Climate, Precious Time, Stills

Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!

- Pio of Pietrelcina

topic: Blessed, Use, Precious Time, Blessed Are Those

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Busy, Certain, Precious Time

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

topic: Inspirational, Money, Time, Spiritual Wealth, Time And Money

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Successful, Energy, Elements, Successful Person, Time Is Precious

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

- David Brainerd

topic: Time, Improvement, Be Careful, Precious Time

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

- Henry Van Dyke

source: Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

topic: Love, Life, Time, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

The time is always right to do what is right.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Social Good, Social Service

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Contribution To Society, Wasting My Time

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

- William Penn

topic: Time, Want, Use, Had A Great Time, Top Management

Lost time is never found again.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Positive, Time, Caring, Management Motivation, Managing Time

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Life, Time, Calendars, Two Nations, Time Is Precious

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

- Henry Van Dyke

source: Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

topic: Valentines Day, Meaningful, Famous Love, Special Love, Love Is Life

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want, Gloom, Life Being Too Short

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Weekend, Literature, Waste, Precious Time

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

- Bob Dylan

source: 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' (1963 song)

topic: Friendship, Thinking, Mind, Think Twice, Precious Time

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Trust, Time, Truth, Time Is Precious, Precious Time

For those who love... time is eternity.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Powerful, Special Love, Lovers Love

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

- Van Jones

topic: Lying, Fighting, Past, Time And Energy, Political Spectrum

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Waste, And Love, Painful, Precious Time

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

- James E. Faust

topic: Together, Today, Problem, Time Together, Families Today

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: Life Is Too Short, Life Is, Too Short, Life Being Too Short, Life Is Way Too Short

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic, Life Being Too Short, Life Is Way Too Short

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people spend their days either living in the dead past or the imagined future. This sort of mental activity cheats a person out of the most precious time we have ... NOW. Give everything you have to what you are doing NOW and life will richly reward you.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 03, 2011

topic: Past, People, Giving, Precious Time

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

- Robert Earl Keen

topic: Selfish, Time Management, Guilty, Precious Time

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.

- Casper Smart

source: "Jennifer Lopez & Casper Smart: Age Is Nothing but a Number" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

topic: Age, Earth, Hours, Precious Time

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

- Brené Brown

source: Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Sacrifice, Unique, Opportunity, Daring Greatly, Bulletproof

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Uplifting, Media, Needs, Watching Television, Precious Time

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

- Peter De Vries

topic: Punishment, Waste, Delay, Precious Time

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Education, Teaching, Science, Superficial Knowledge, Gathering Information

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

- Richard Baxter

topic: Wise, Reading, Book, Precious Time

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Children, Real, Games, Precious Time

(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: God, Sorry, Book, Precious Time

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

- Paul Wellstone

topic: Dream, Simple, Giving, Beloved Community, Precious Time

It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time. There is very often no finally decisive yes, though quite often there can be a decisive no.

- Peter Medawar

source: Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

topic: Falling In Love, Years, Pet, Precious Time

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

- William Whipple

topic: Sorry, Apology, Long, I Am Sorry, Chicanery

The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Love, Jobs, Mean, Precious Time

If you feel like you're at 50 percent with someone and that's as far as you'll get, you're wasting precious time. You should always be with someone who enriches your life and inspires you to be the best you can be.

- Jenna Ushkowitz

topic: Inspire, Like You, Being The Best, Precious Time

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

- Newton N. Minow

topic: Baby, Growing Up, Children, Media Violence, Precious Time

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

- Paul Wellstone

topic: Giving, Excess, Politics, Precious Time

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Mistake, Self, Suffering, Exaggerating, Defining Ourselves

When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

- James Arthur Ray

topic: Desire, Energy, Stories, Precious Time

Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

- Earl Hamner, Jr.

topic: Sacrifice, Journey, Compassion, Love And Sacrifice, Pity Love