Productive Living Quotes

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

What makes a lot of sense is that, while people are incarcerated, give them the tools they need to be able to have a productive, lucrative living when they leave so they can provide for their families and break that cycle of recidivism.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

If you have the resources, don't waste your time. Why not continue doing the things you enjoy, such as making movies and taking part in things that the younger generation would like.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.