Day Quotes - Page 11

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given the powers we have not used the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which shirking pain misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Wasted time means wasted lives.

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

Economy is the thief of time.

Ethel Watts Mumford

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.

William Gladstone

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

William Shakespeare

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

Sir Walter Scott

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Charles Richards

Our costliest expenditure is time.

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.

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

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

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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

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

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.

It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.

Evangeline Cory Booth

During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.

Sir Richard Tangye

Time cannot be expanded accumulated mortgaged hastened or retarded.

Anonymous

Seize time by the forelock.

Pittacus

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

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.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Queen Elizabeth I

Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We work not only to produce but to give value to time.

Eugène Delacroix

Dollars cannot buy yesterday.

Admiral Harold R. Stark

As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Thomas P. Murphy

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.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.

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

Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Alexander Smith

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

Horatio W. Dresser

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Anonymous

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Horace

Each day each hour an entire life.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

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

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

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

Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

Charles Macomb Flandrau

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

Seize the hour.

Sophocles

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