Quotes About Time

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

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Economy is the thief of time.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

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.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

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

Time wasted is a theft from God.

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

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

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

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

We have as much time as we need.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.