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Quotations About Productivity and Using Time Wisely

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

 


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