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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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