Starting the 1st of January 2025, the blog will pick a ‘word of the week’, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – time.
Beautiful quotes on the value of time:
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it
– Harvey Mackay
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
– Bruce Lee
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life
– Steve Jobs
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present
– Bill Keane
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams
– Jeremy Irons
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing. Just sitting & looking at the sea or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?” – Ralph Marston
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin beautiful acts of service” – Mother Teresa
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time” – Bertrand Russell
“It’s being here & now that is important. There’s no past & there’s no future. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past & we can only hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one” – George Harrison
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with the ones you love” – Barbara Bush
“Tough times never last, but tough people do” — Robert Schuller
“Do not wait, the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, work with whatever tools you may have at your command & better tools will be found as you go along” – George Herbert
“It’s not just about the pay check, it’s about looking in the mirror & knowing that you’ve done something valuable with your day” – Dave Kovic
“It’s not enough to be busy with time, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry Thoreau
“Have regular hours for work & play, make each day both useful & pleasant, prove that you understand the worth of time” – Louisa May Alcott
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments” — Rose Kennedy
“With technology & over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others” – Michelle Gielan
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself” – Andy Warhol
“Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail, but a man is the happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly” – Ivan Turgenev
“Stop, take your time to notice things & make those things you notice matter” – Cecelia Ahern
“Free time is the most precious time when we should be doing what we love or at least slowing down enough to remember what makes our life worthwhile & happy” – Amy Tan
“The butterfly counts not the months, but the moments & has time enough” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it” – Scott Peck
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand & melting like a snowflake” – Sir Francis Bacon
“Take care of the minutes & the hours will take care of themselves” – Lord Chesterfield
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time” – Abraham Lincoln
“Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop & take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift” – Cheryl Richardson
“My favourite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time” – Steve Jobs
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead” – Hans Christian Andersen
