Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Nothing is ours except time.

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

Every second is of infinite value.

Time is bunk.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

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

FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

Time cant be given. But it can be shared.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.