Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Free time is the enemy of progress

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I would rather be sick than idle.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.