Day One Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Time cannot be expanded accumulated mortgaged hastened or retarded.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

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.

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.

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.

If you want to kill time try working it to death.

Don't agonize. Organize.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.

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

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.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

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

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau filling up the small spaces with small things.

One must learn a different... sense of time one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

A fool bolts pleasure then complains of indigestion.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

Live in day-tight compartments.

If you are not happy here and now you never will be.

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.