Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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.

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.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

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

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

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 given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

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.

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.