Eugene Delacroix Quotes

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

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

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.

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.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

Your greatest resource is your time.

One must work with time and not against it.

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

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

There is always time to take more time.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.