Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

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

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

Lost time is never found again.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

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

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

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.

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

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

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

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.

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.