Voltaire Quotes

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

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

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

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

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

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

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Lost time is never found again.

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

Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

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

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

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

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

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 main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

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