Time Well Spent Quotes

• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Music, Dance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jan 28, 2013

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

  Jimmy Buffett

  Time Will Tell, Wells, Ifs

  Song: Trip Around The Sun, Album: License to Chill, 2004

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  Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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• True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Luxury, Paper, Able

  "The All New Ashton Kutcher Story!" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Way, Action, Hours

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• Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

  Donna Tartt

  Aggravation, Challenges, Literature

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Pain, Kindness

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• The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, Opportunity, Years

  Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas Adams at Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, www.edge.org. September 17, 2001.

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• I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Time, Giving Up

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Animal, Cowboy

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• Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Reality, Imagination

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  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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• If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Family, Success

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• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  Zig Ziglar

  Vacation, Results, Money Well Spent

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• No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.158, Editora Dracaena

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

  Simon Sinek

  Sleep, Games, Feel Good

  "How To Spend Your Time: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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