Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

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

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

The most precious resource we have is time.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.