L. Frank Baum Quotes

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

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

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Don't waste your time on life.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

My life is very full; my wife makes it so. I'm 82 years old and I'm having the best time I've ever had in my life. I want to share that with all of you. Find a way to do that, find a way to be at peace with yourself, to enjoy the little things in life. Make them your own.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.