Quotes by American Authors - Page 90

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Norman Cousins
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
We have as much time as we need.
Melody Beattie
Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce Kennedy
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
If you want to kill time try working it to death.
Sam Levenson
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
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Economy is the thief of time.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
Mary Bly
You may delay but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
O for an engine to keep back all clocks!
Ben Johnson
We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
John F Kennedy
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.
Denis Waitley
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
George Matthew Adams
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.
Gary Jennings
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 a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.
John Mason
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
John H. Patterson
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
Charles Macomb Flandrau
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
Horatio W. Dresser
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
Herb Gardner
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
Ben Irwin
The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Jack London
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.
John W. Gardner
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller
I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
Kerri Strug
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson