Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

You only have so much time in a day.

Unfortunately, no matter how much time you get, you can always use more.

The only thing I don't have is enough time.

You know, I wish I had more time in the week.

There are never enough minutes in the day for what I want to do.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

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

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

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

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.