"Make each day your masterpiece." John Wooden

"The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future." Shiloh Morrison

"Energy is eternal delight." William Blake

"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still." Charles Caleb Colton

"Yesterday and tomorrow
 cross and mix on the skyline.
 The two are lost in a purple haze.
 One forgets, one waits."
 Carl Sandburg

"The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate." Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (1715-1747)

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." Francois Mocuriac

"The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be." Loesje

"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook." 
Beat the Devil (1953) - O'Hara (Peter Lorre)

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." 
John Green

"Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu." Robert Brault

"Nothing takes the past away like the future." Unknown

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." Henry David Thoreau

"One of these days is none of these days." H.G. Bohn

"Tomorrow is a fresh day with no mistakes in it." unknown

"Learning is movement from moment to moment." Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future" Deepak Chopra

"All human power is a compound of time and patience." Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." Thomas Hardy

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." William Faulkner

"Time is the longest distance between two places." Tennessee Williams

"Never let yesterday use up today." Richard H. Nelson

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese Proverb

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different." Bill Watterson

"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now." Buddha

"The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything." Lee Iacocca

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

"Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers." anonymous

"The future is the past returning through another gate." Arnold H. Glasgow

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson,

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw

"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today." Brendan Francis

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" William A. Ward

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." Charles Richards

"The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here." Finley Peter Dunne

"Across the centuries, we have this timeless medicine: Live directly, wait, and care for your soul as if it were the whole world." Mark Nepo

"Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your life." Naomi Shihab Nye

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." Thomas Merton

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." Sam Levenson, 1911 - 1980

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

"It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals." Beverley Nichols, British gardener, writer

"The wise gardener anticipates June in January." anonymous

"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." Oprah Winfrey

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." Art Buchwald

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." Bill Vaughan

"What breaks in a moment may take years to repair." Swedish Proverb

"Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change." Edwin Teale

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." Bonnie Friedman, author (b. 1958)

"Time is what makes you realize that not everything happens at once." Buckminster Fuller

"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about." Norman Augustine

"Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch." George Carlin

"There will never be another now -
I'll make the most of today.
There will never be another me -
I'll make the most of myself." Helen Keller

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day." Robin Casarjean

"Time is the stealthy ghost that hides the wisps of change." Robert Genn

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." William James

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

"Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be."
Unknown

"It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it." Robert Musil, novelist (1880-1942)

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Onely one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at time." Winston Churchill

"The true nature of time may forever remain a mystery. Apart from the clang of it, it's by getting things done that we measure it. The job of art is to turn time into things." Robert Genn

"It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary." Tennessee Williams
(1914-1983)

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." William Shakespeare

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." Horace

"Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time." William Cowper

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past." Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always." Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think." Chinese Proverb

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time." William Blake

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.” Anonymous

"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?" Wendell Berry

“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”Baltazar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer

"The days are long enough for those who use them." Leonardo da Vinci

"When we put things off until some future — probably mythical — Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.” Peter McWilliams

"What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it." Thomas Simmons

“Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is the dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human sprit—which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time and throughout the whole length of your days.” Joseph Campbell

"Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it." Erich Fromm

"We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: Hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly. A life passes quickly, but we always think we have plenty of time.” Sally Warner

“Guard your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” Alex Haley

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles

“Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.” George Ade

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, ‘There are no birds in last year's nest.’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

“Time wears away error and polishes truth.” Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

“The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” Bernard Berenson

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.” Ernest Hemingway

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” Marcel Pagnol

“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, ‘There are no birds in last year's nest.’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live about a hundred years.” Thomas Edison

“Lost time is never found again.” John H. Aughey

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” Stephen Swid, executive

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him(/her) who has the vision to recognize it as such.” Henry Miller

“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills.” William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

“With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” Chinese proverb

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time.” Jim Rohn

“Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.” T.S. Elliot

“One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.” Anonymous

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” Max Frisch

“Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass.” French Sundial Motto

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator.” Francis Bacon

“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

“Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.” Paul Hawken

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

“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.” William Arthur Ward

“Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.” Richard Ben Sapir

“In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.” Tom Nolan

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist

“Time is the only commodity that we can not get back once we have spent it.” Anonymous

“Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” Shakespeare

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.” Winnie The Pooh

“We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.” Mark Twain

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” Jim Bishop

“Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists in putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.” Herman Hesse (1877 - 1962)

“Most of us think having a list of priorities is a sign of a motivated, serious person. But there is one essential flaw in this perspective. We are not guaranteed a future; and even if we were we could not live in it. All we have is now.” George Lawrence-Ell (The Invisible Clock)

"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." Antoinette Bosco

“If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.” James Petersen

“Lost time is never found again.” Benjamin Franklin

“If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.” Frank Tyger

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” Hector Berlioz

“Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter . . . . This is it. . . . If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here’s the place to have the experience.” Joseph Campbell

“Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.” Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb