“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The years teach much which the days never know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
— Jack London Secondary source“Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say yes to one thing you are inevitably saying no to another.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs Primary sourceTo see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
“History, in the objective meaning of the word, is the process of change; in the subjective meaning, it is the study of how and why one situation changes into another.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“These Secret Service people always seemed to have time for sex however important their jobs might be.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“There is no sense in calculating the probability or the chance that something happens after it happens.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“‘Tomorrow!’ What possibilities there are in that word.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“Lost time is never found again.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Disputed“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”
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