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.
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
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
If you want to kill time try working it to death.
~ Sam Levenson
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
~ Charles Darwin
If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
Don't agonize. Organize.
~ Florynce Kennedy
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
~ Coco Chanel
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
~ Charles Buxton
We have as much time as we need.
~ Melody Beattie
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
~ Robert W. Service
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
~ Jean De La Bruyère
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
What we love to do we find time to do.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
~ Anonymous
There is time for everything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
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
