What the Bible Says
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might;
for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where
you go.– Ecclesiastes 9:10
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as
wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be
unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.– Ephesians 5:15-17
What the Sages Say
Time is the inexplicable raw
material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it, nothing. The
supply of time is truly a miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one
examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! Your purse is magically filled
with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your
life.
It is yours. It is the most precious
of possessions… no one can take it from you. It is unstealeable. And no one
receives either more or less than you receive. - Jim Rohn
In
the realm of time, there is no aristocracy or intellect. Genius is never
rewarded by even an hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your
infinitely precious commodity as much as you will and the supply will never be
withheld from you.Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. It is impossible to
get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste
tomorrow; it is kept for you…
You
have these twenty-four hours of daily time to live. Out of it you want to spin
health, pleasure, money, contentment, respect, and the evolution of your
immortal soul. Its right use, its most effective use is a matter of the highest
urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that.
Your
happiness – the elusive price that you are all clutching for, my friend –
depends on that. If one cannot arrange that an income of twenty-four hours
shall exactly cover all proper items of expenditure, one does muddle one’s
whole life indefinitely.
-
Jim Rohn
We
shall never have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time
there is.
-
Arnold Bennet
Time
is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the
most profound effect on how our lives turn out.
-
Jim Rohn
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