Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Lost time is never found again.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

Space we can recover; time never.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)