Quotes by Authors - Page 98

We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
John F Kennedy
Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.
George MacDonald
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
Time cannot be expanded accumulated mortgaged hastened or retarded.
Anonymous
It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
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
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is at the end of the day No follies to have to repent But reflect on the past and be able to say That my time has been properly spent.
Ann Taylor
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
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
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
Time like money is measured by our needs.
George Eliot
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
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anonymous
The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
Horatio W. Dresser
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
While we live let us live.
D.H. Lawrence
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
To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.
John W. Gardner
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller
I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
Kerri Strug
Youth troubles over eternity age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Dame Mary Gilmore
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
Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep.
Emma Willard
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Henry David Thoreau
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Michel Montaigne
A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
Anonymous
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie D. Babcock
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.
Louis L'Amour
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
Henry Miller
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Julia Ward Howe
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
Shelley Winters
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
Mary Parker Follett
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.
Rosie Perez
People with good intentions never give up!
Jane Smiley
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt