Quotes about Time

Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.

If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?

Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.

you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.

By taking a few moments to "die on purpose" to the rush of time while you are still living, you free yourself to have time for the present. By "dying" now in this way, you actually become more alive now.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.