The one thing I have come to realize in life is how well or poorly you spend your time, reflects how happy your are. It is also amazing to me how little people value the one thing they cannot control, or create, or get more of: TIME. Because of this, I complied what I believe are the 27 best quotations dealing on the subject. I hope you enjoy them and feel not they be a waste of your time.
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it."
--M. Scott Peck
--M. Scott Peck
“Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
--Benjamin Franklin
“How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.”
—Denis Waitley
—Denis Waitley
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop."
--Alfred Polgar
--Alfred Polgar
"The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience."
-- Leo Tolstoy
-- Leo Tolstoy
"Perfection
is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
--Voltaire
--Voltaire
"We
must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up
to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
--Marian Wright Edelman
--Marian Wright Edelman
“When
you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.”
--Harvey Mackay
--Harvey Mackay
“Guard
well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them, and their
value will never be known. Improve them, and they will become the brightest gems
in a useful life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Four
things come not back, the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the
neglected opportunity."
-- Arabian Proverb
-- Arabian Proverb
“Don't
be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make
use of."
--Charles Richards
--Charles Richards
“You
begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose
romanticism or politics.”
--Charles Bukowski
--Charles Bukowski
“He
that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the
greatest innovator."
--Francis Bacon
--Francis Bacon
“Time
changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by
change.”
--Thomas Hardy
--Thomas Hardy
“It
will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will
to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.”
--Seth Godin
--Seth Godin
“We
cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
--George M. Adams
--George M. Adams
"Lost
wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by
temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
--Samuel Smiles
--Samuel Smiles
“Time
is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
--Diogenes
--Diogenes
"The
bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler
--Michael Altshuler
“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
—Carl Sandburg
“Procrastination
is the thief of time."
--Edward Young
--Edward Young
“People
who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least."
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Much
may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day
produces, and which many men throw away."
--Charles Caleb Colton
--Charles Caleb Colton
“A
man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
~Charles Darwin
~Charles Darwin
“Boredom
is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing
is."
--Thomas Szasz
--Thomas Szasz
“Counting
time is not as important as making time count.“
--James J. Walker
--James J. Walker
“You
will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
--Charles Buxton
--Charles Buxton
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