Day Quotes

Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

~ Tyron Edwards

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.

~ Eugene Jolus

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up the rest.

~ Marcel Proust

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

~ Lee Iacocca

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

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.

~ Samuel Johnson

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

~ George Macdonald

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

~ C. R. Lawton

We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.

~ John F. Kennedy

Make use of time let not advantage slip.

~ William Shakespeare

You may delay but time will not.

~ Benjamin Franklin

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

~ Emile Littre

The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

~ Robert M. Fine

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

~ Mary Bly

I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

~ Bernard Berenson

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.

~ R. Shannon

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.

~ Horace Mann

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

Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.

~ Joanna Baillie

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Time wasted is a theft from God.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

~ Ugo Betti

You can kill time or kill yourself it comes to the same thing in the end.

~ Elsa Triolet

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

~ Herbert Spencer

Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.

~ Mother Teresa

Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.

~ Dion Boucicault