Shirin Ebadi Quotes

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

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

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.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

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.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

Every second is of infinite value.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.