Time Usage Quotes

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

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

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

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

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.

What will you do with the time you have left?

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?