Productive Use of Time Quotes

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.