Top 30 Quotes about the Best Use of Your Time | Page 2 of 3

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I’d spend six sharpening my axe.
Abraham Lincoln

(1809 – 1865, American statesman and lawyer;
16th President of the United States)

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

(1809 – 1882, English naturalist)

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

(1856 – 1950, Irish playwright, critic,
polemicist, and political activist)

I think we consider too much
the good luck of the early bird,
and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

(1882 – 1945, commonly known as FDR, American statesman;
32nd President of the United States)

Remember,
today is the tomorrow
you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

(1888 – 1955, American writer and lecturer)

Plans are nothing.
Planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

(1890 – 1969, American Army general and statesman;
34th President of the United States)

All we have to decide
is what to do
with the time
that is given to us.
J.R.R. Tolkien

(1892 – 1973, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor)

One of the best ways of avoiding
necessary and even urgent tasks
is to seem to be busily employed on things
that are already done.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Affluent Society, ch. 2, sect. ii

(1908 – 2006, also known as Ken Galbraith,
Canadian-born economist, public official, and diplomat)

Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.
Mother Teresa

(1910 – 1997, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary)

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’re lost it,
you can never get it back.
Harvey MacKay

(*1932, businessman, author and columnist)