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Quotations
About Productivity and Using Time Wisely
None
preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. ~ Benjamin Franklin
It is worse
to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. ~ Baltasar
Gracian
The
gods assist the industrious. ~ Latin Proverb
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never
learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor
is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and
the great curse to a great blessing. ~ Joseph M. W. Turner
Even
if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there. ~ Will Rogers
The idle man
does not know what it is to enjoy rest. ~ Albert Einstein
Oh
that it were my chief delight
To do the things that I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught. ~ Jane Taylor
Men do less
than they ought, unless they do all that they can. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Our
grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The ruin of
most men dates from some idle moment. ~ Hillard
He
who would make serious use of his life must always act as though
he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though
he were about to die. ~ Emile Littre
I wasted time,
and now time doth wasted me. ~ William Shakespeare
Remember
that time is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
He who knows
most grieves most for wasted time. ~ Dante
There
is no remedy for time misspent,
No healing for the waste of idleness;
Because I know the span of life was lent
For lofty duties, not for selfishness.
~ Sir J. Stephen
A young man
idle is an old man needy. ~ Proverb
Genius
begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~ Joseph Joubert
Talk less about
the years to come,
Live, love labor more today.
~ C. N. Bovee
Those
who make the worst use of their time ore the first to complain of
its brevity. ~ La Bruyere
Our costliest
expenditure is time. ~ Theophrastus
We
take no note of time
But from its loss.
~ Edward Young
I cannot conceive
that mere idlers can have respect enough for themselves to be comfortable.
~ Timothy Flint
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!
~ Jane Taylor
If you have
an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
~
Lord Chesterfield
Idleness
is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. ~ Francois de
La Rochefoucauld
The
more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish;
for he learns to economize his time. ~ Sir Matthew Hale
The
world belongs to the energetic. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God
ever works with those who work with will. ~ Aeschylus
The
more we do, the more we can do: the more busy we are, the more leisure
we have. ~ William Hazlitt
No
day should pass without somethng being done. ~ Latin Proverb
Man
must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his,
but not both. ~ Newell D. Hillis
If time be of
all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality,
since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough
always proves little enough. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A
worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work. ~
Leopold Auer
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