Denis Waitley Quotes

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

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

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.