Thoughts—Time	
To realize the value of four years:	
Ask a graduate.	
To realize the value of one year:	
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.	
To realize the value of nine months:	
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.	
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother of a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week:	
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.	
To realize the value of one hour:	
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.	
To realize the value of one minute:	
Ask a person who missed the train, bus, or plane.	
To realize the value of one second:	
Ask a person who has survived an accident.	
To realize the value of one millisecond:	
Ask the person who won silver in the Olympics.	
Time waits for no one.	
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more	
when you can share it with someone special.	
To realize the value of a friend:	
Lose one.	
Yesterday is the past — Tomorrow is the future.
Today is a gift — That's why it's call the present.
       —Bill Keane
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you 
have time to do it over? —John Wooden
Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you 
have, and only you can decide how it will be spent.  
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  
       —Carl Sandburg
You may delay, but time will not.     —Ben Franklin
If you don't value yourself, you won't value your 
time.  Until you value your time, you will not do 
anything with it.   —M. Scott Peck	
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
        —Henry David Thoreau
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living 
someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by living with 
the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the 
noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner 
voice.  And most important, have the courage to 
follow your heart, ideas, and intuition.   
         —Steve Jobs
You build on failure.  You use it as a stepping stone.  
Close the door on the past.  You don't try to forget 
the mistakes, but you don't think about them.  You 
don't let mistakes have any of your energy, or any of 
your time, or any of your space.     —Johnny Cash
Never waste a minute thinking about people you 
don't like.   —Dwight D. Eisenhower
Time is an equal opportunity employer because 
each person has exactly the same number of hours 
and minutes every day.  Rich people can't buy more 
hours.  Scientists can't invest new minutes.  And 
you can't save time to spend it on another day.  Time 
is amazingly fair and forgiving because no matter 
how much time you've wasted in the past, you still 
have today. .    —Denis Waitely
QUICK CHECK:
1. Poem: a) For whom does time wait?  b) What 	
should you treasure?	
2. Keane: What is a present?
3. Sandburg:  Why be careful with your coin?
4. Jobs: Have the courage to follow what 3 things?
5. Cash:  Don't let mistakes have what 3 things?
6. Eisenhower:  Don't waste a minute doing what?
7. Waitely:  a) Explain why time is an equal 
 opportunity employer.  b) Why time is fair and 	
forgiving.	
8. a) Which quote do you like?  b) Why?
Thoughts & Quotes