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Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas  but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
— Lisa M. Amos
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated  he is not defeated-he's just a little behind  and isn't through fighting.
— Darrell Royal
Only yield when you must  never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
— Phoebe Cary
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
— Josephus Daniels
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
— Beverly Sills
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
— Fay Weldon
Never give in! Never give in! Never  never  never  never.... In nothing great or small  large or petty  never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
— Winston Churchill
First there are those who are winners  and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners  but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
— Paul William
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
— Alva Reimer Myrdal
Never admit defeat!
— Arthur Rimbaud
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France  we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air  we shall defend our island  whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches  we shall fight on the landing grounds  we shall fight in the fields  and in the streets  we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
— Winston Churchill
Patient endurance attends to all things.
— Teresa of Avila
He conquers who endures.
— Anonymous
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished  to endure unpleasantness  discomfort and frustration.
— Edward A. Strecker
To bear is to conquer our fate.
— Thomas Campbell
Keep breathing.
— Sophie Tucker
It helps  I think  to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith  to endure  to help each other when we stumble or tire  to weep and press on.
— Mary Caroline Richards
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it  and not be smashed by it.
— Ernest Hemingway
The first need of being is endurance  to endure with gladness if we can  with fortitude in any event.
— Bliss Carman
I bend  but I do not break.
— Jean de la Fontaine
He that endureth to the end shall be saved.
— Bible
Whatever necessity lays upon thee  endure  whatever she commands  do.
— Johann von Goethe
In the clutch of circumstance  I have not winced or cried aloud  Under the bludgeoning of chance  my head is bloody  but unbowed.
— William E. Henley
We shall live to fight again  and to strike another blow.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.
— Robert J. Donovan
God Almighty hates a quitter.
— Samuel Fessenden
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines  but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
— Buddha
Endure  and preserve yourselves for better things.
— Virgil
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
— Virgil
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through  it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness  and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil  while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you want to see the sun shine  you have to weather the storm.
— Frank Lane
If you want the rainbow  you gotta put up with the rain.
— Dolly Parton
What cannot be altered must be borne  not blamed.
— Thomas Fuller
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure  and go calmly on!
— Ben Johnson
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them  since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind  and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
— Pietro Aretino
Endurance is nobler than strength  and patience than beauty.
— John Ruskin
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
— Pietro Aretino
We must endure what fortune sends.
— Greek proverb
People can bear anything.
— Philip Slater
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
— French proverb
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
— Euripides
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
— Bern Williams
Obstacles cannot crush me  every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
— Leonardo da Vinci
And let us not be weary in well doing  for in due season we shall reap  if we faint not.
— Bible
Hold on with a bulldog grip  and chew and choke as much as possible.
— Abraham Lincoln
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on  one doesn't die  and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace  but it brings the dawn nearer.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most  and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.
— Michelle Kwan
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling  but in rising every time we fall.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
— Judith Rossner
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
— Oliver Goldsmith
If I don't get off the mat  I'll lose the fight.
— Archie Moore
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
— Edward Eggleston
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision  beginning with one corner of the canvas  painting what he thinks should be there  not quite pulling it off  covering it over with white paint  and trying again  each time finding out what his painting isn't  until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is  you're off and running.
— Anne Lamott
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist  but in the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.
— Lily Pincus
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
— Cyril Connolly
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
— Robert Frost
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
As long as one keeps searching  the answers come.
— Joan Baez
How many years you have to keep on doing  until you know what to do and how to do!
— Johann von Goethe
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
— Geraldine Jewsbury
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit  and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.
— Joe David Bellamy
Learn to self-conquest  persevere thus for a time  and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
— Teresa of Avila
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
— Ordway Tead
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
— Diane Sawyer
Life has no smooth road for any of us  and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend  "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.
— W. C. Doane
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
— Roseanne Barr
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it  I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
— John Adams
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write  and then I remember that it was always difficult  and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
— Ernest Hemingway
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will  and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When you're a professional  you come back no matter what happened the day before.
— Billy Martin
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
— Michel de Montaigne
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently  he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one  he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.
— Raymond Chandler
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter  we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
— William Hazlitt
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive  I feel that anything can happen.
— Anouk Aimee
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
— Louis L'Amour
When you get to the end of your rope  tie a knot in it and hang on.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People with good intentions never give up!
— Jane Smiley
If I see a door comin' my way  I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door  I'm sliding through the window.
— Rosie Perez
All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way  this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me  I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Tribulation produces perseverance  and perseverance  character  and character  hope.
— Bible
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
— Mary Parker Follett
"Brave admiral  say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
— Joaquin Miller
In Hollywood  all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
— Shelley Winters
We must dare  and dare again  and go on daring.
— Georges Jacques Danton
Austere perseverance  harsh and continuous  may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose  for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
— Johann von Goethe
Grant me the courage not to give up  even though I think it is hopeless.
— Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
— Diane Glancy
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
— Meridel Le Sueur
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
— Julia Ward Howe
I have often been adrift  but I have always stayed afloat.
— David Berry
God helps those who persevere.
— Koran
Gnaw your own bone  gnaw at it  bury it  unearth it  gnaw it still.
— Henry David Thoreau
Like ships  men flounder time and time again.
— Henry Miller
To strive  to seek  to find  and not to yield.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
— Mother Teresa
If you stop struggling  then you stop life.
— Huey Newton
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school  the little while I went  I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me  but I always got up.
— Louis L'Amour
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
— E. M. Bounds
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes  the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
— Maltbie D. Babcock
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
— Thomas Fuller
Noble blood is an accident of fortune  noble actions characterize the great.
— Carlo Goldoni
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
— William Shakespeare
A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
— Anonymous
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
— Edward Lear
No one is exempt from talking nonsense  the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
— Michel Montaigne
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
— Francois Rabelais
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
— Napoleon
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
— Pascal
Nothing to do but work  Nothing to eat but food  Nothing to wear but clothes  To keep one from going nude.
— Ben King
Blessed be he who expects nothing  for he shall never be disappointed.
— Alexander Pope
They laboriously do nothing.
— Seneca
A life of nothing's nothing worth  From that first nothing ere his birth  To that last nothing under earth.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government  while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve  protect  and defend" it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth  But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
— William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith  not ask thine oath  Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
— William Shakespeare
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let they child's first lesson be obedience  and the second will be what thou wilt.
— Benjamin Franklin
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
— Jules Michelet
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
— William Shakespeare
The eye that mocketh at his father  and despiseth to obey his mother  the ravens of the valley shall pick it out  and the young eagles shall eat it.
— Bible
I give the fight up  let there be an end  A privacy  an obscure nook for me  I want to be forgotten even by God.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen  And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
— Thomas Gray
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting  by the world forgot.
— Alexander Pope
How many a rustic Milton has passed by  Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies  no longer tameless then  To mold a pin  or fabricate a nail!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thus let me live  unseen  unknown  Thus unlamented let me die  Steal from the world  and not a stone Tell where I lie.
— Alexander Pope
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view  and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— Thomas Campbell
All of us are watchers - of television  of time clocks  of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking  not many are seeing.
— Peter M. Leschak
As a man is  so he sees.
— William Blake
My evening visitors  if they cannot see the clock  should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know  their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who 
— Rudyard Kipling
I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
— Albert Einstein
Mystery is not profoundness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The difference between landscape and landscape is small  but there's a great difference in the beholders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes are the window of the soul.
— Old saying
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
— Studs Terkel
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
— Robertson Davies
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
— Adelbert Ames
The eye is the jewel of the body.
— Henry David Thoreau
The ear tends to be lazy  craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected  the eye  on the other hand  tends to be impatient  craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
— W. H. Auden
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
— Oscar Wilde
One must always tell what one sees. Above all  which is more difficult  one must always see what one sees.
— Charles Peguy
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life  and are attached to the duties  yet escape the harsher blows  make acute and balanced observers.
— George Meredith
People only see what they are prepared to see.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lower classes of men  though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive  nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting  the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
— G. C. Lichtenberg
There's none so blind as those who won't see.
— English proverb
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
— Bernard Barton
An obstinate man does not hold opinions  but they hold him.
— Alexander Pope
I hold every man a debtor to his profession  from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit  so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves  by way of amends  to be a help and ornament thereunto.
— Sir Francis Bacon
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness  whether it be to make baskets  or broadswords  or canals  or statues  or songs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now  if I were a grave-digger  or even a hangman  there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
— Douglas Jerrold
Full many a gem of purest ray serene  The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
— Thomas Gray
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky  Their giant branches toss'd.
— Felicia D. Hemans
Praise the sea  but keep on land.
— George Herbert
Rocked in the cradle of the deep  I lay me down in peace to sleep.
— Emma Willard
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts  bestowed for the good of the country  and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
— John Caldwell Calhoun
If a due participation of office is a matter of right  how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation  none.
— Thomas Jefferson
This struggle and scramble for office  for a way to live without work  will finally test the strength of our institutions.
— Abraham Lincoln
The insolence of office.
— William Shakespeare
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
— Euripides
Youth troubles over eternity  age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
— Dame Mary Gilmore
Nothing is worth more than this day.
— Johann von Goethe
I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
— Kerri Strug
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once  and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
— John Howe
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds  speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
— Charles Reed
We create our fate every day we live.
— Henry Miller
Who loses a day loses life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we only knew the real value of a day.
— Joseph Farrell
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
— John Cage
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
— George Macdonald
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
— Jean de la Bruyere
To sensible men  every day is a day of reckoning.
— John W. Gardner
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold  and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
— Kahlil Gibran
The proper function of man is to live  not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
— Jack London
A day  an hour  of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
— Joseph Addison
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
— Horace
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
— Horace
Everyone once  once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
— Ben Irwin
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
— Sister Elizabeth Kenny
While we live  let us live.
— D. H. Lawrence
No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
— Jack Smith
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time  and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
So teach us to number our days  that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
— Bible
You have got to own your days and live them  each one of them  every one of them  or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
— Herb Gardner
The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
— Horatio W. Dresser
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
— E. S. Bouton
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
— Anonymous
He possesses dominion over himself  and is happy  who can every day say  "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds  or cheer it with clear sunshine  he will not  however  render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
— Horace
Each day  each hour  an entire life.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king  rich man  fairy  or demon who possesses such power as that.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is now ... this day  this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
— Charles Macomb Flandrau
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may  Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today  Tomorrow will be dying.
— Henry David Thoreau
Seize the hour.
— Sophocles
Time  like money  is measured by our needs.
— George Eliot
Nothing is ours except time.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
— John H. Patterson
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it  and others do just the same with their time.
— Johann von Goethe
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more  for anyone can save his purse  but none can win back lost time.
— Latin proverb
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
— Charles Lamb
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
— Paul W. Litchfield
Know the true value of time  snatch  seize  and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness  no laziness  no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
— Lord Chesterfield
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work  it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
— Arnold Bennett
All my possessions for a moment of time.
— Queen Elizabeth I
Let me tell thee  time is a very precious gift of God  so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
— Amelia Barr
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime  but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
We work not only to produce  but to give value to time.
— Eugene Delacroix
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
— Admiral Harold R. Stark
As every thread of gold is valuable  so is every moment of time.
— John Mason
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
— Thomas P. Murphy
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have  and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
— Carl Sandburg
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value  and its face of eter1nal youth.
— Albert Camus
Lost time is never found again.
— Benjamin Franklin
If a person gives you his time  he can give you no more precious gift.
— Frank Tyger
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth  and parts not with it but for the full value.
— Lord Clarendon
Time isn't a commodity  something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time  they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
— Antoinette Bosco
Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought  but only spent.
— Gary Jennings
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
— Alexander Smith
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
— Laertius Diogenes
The great rule of moral conduct is  next to God  to respect Time.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One hour of life  crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks  is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
— Sir Walter Scott
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
— Charles Richards
Our costliest expenditure is time.
— Theophrastus
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is  at the end of the day  No follies to have to repent  But reflect on the past  and be able to say  That my time has been properly spent.
— Ann Taylor
I must govern the clock  not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
— Patricia Fripp
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
— Susan Ertz
The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
— George Matthew Adams
Have regular hours for work and play  make each day both useful and pleasant  and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful  old age will bring few regrets  and life will become a beautiful success.
— Louisa May Alcott
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident  chaos will soon reign.
— Victor Hugo
Have a time and place for everything  and do everything in its time and place  and you will not only accomplish more  but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
— Tyron Edwards
It is not how many years we live  but rather what we do with them.
— Evangeline Cory Booth
During a very busy life I have often been asked  "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
— Sir Richard Tangye
Time cannot be expanded  accumulated  mortgaged  hastened  or retarded.
— Anonymous
Seize time by the forelock.
— Pittacus
Time is a tyranny to be abolished.
— Eugene Jolus
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic  the passions that we feel expand it  those that we inspire contract it  and habit fills up the rest.
— Marcel Proust
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
— Lee Iacocca
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so  time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past  you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.
— Denis Waitley
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"  an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation  but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry  and generally satisfy the most extensive desires  if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence  to be overrun with noxious plants  or laid out for show rather than for use.
— Samuel Johnson
Timely service  like timely gifts  is doubled in value.
— George Macdonald
Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.
— C. R. Lawton
We must use time as a tool  not as a crutch.
— John F. Kennedy
Make use of time  let not advantage slip.
— William Shakespeare
O  for an engine to keep back all clocks!
— Ben Johnson
You may delay  but time will not.
— Benjamin Franklin
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.
— Emile Littre
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.
— Robert M. Fine
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
— Mary Bly
I wish I could stand on a busy corner  hat in hand  and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
— Bernard Berenson
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given  the powers we have not used  the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which  shirking pain  misses happiness as well.
— Mary Cholmondeley
Wasted time means wasted lives.
— R. Shannon
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains  if we will only stop the waste and the idle  useless regretting.
— Arthur Brisbane
Economy is the thief of time.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
I wasted time  and now doth time waste me.
— William Shakespeare
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lost  yesterday  somewhere between sunrise and sunset  two golden hours  each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered  for they are gone forever.
— Horace Mann
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife  with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams  waste of it will make you dwindle  alike in intellectual and moral stature  beyond your darkest reckoning.
— William Gladstone
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
— William Shakespeare
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life  time unenriched by experience  creative endeavor  enjoyment  and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Still on it creeps  Each little moment at another's heels  Till hours  days  years  and ages are made up Of such small parts as these  and men look back Worn and bewilder'd  wondering how it is.
— Joanna Baillie
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time  for that is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin
Time wasted is a theft from God.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
— Ugo Betti
You can kill time or kill yourself  it comes to the same thing in the end.
— Elsa Triolet
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
— Thomas Jefferson
Time is that which man is always trying to kill  but which ends in killing him.
— Herbert Spencer
Do not wait for leaders  do it alone  person to person.
— Mother Teresa
Men talk of killing time  while time quietly kills them.
— Dion Boucicault
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
— Erich Fromm
If you want to kill time  try working it to death.
— Sam Levenson
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
— Charles Darwin
If time be of all things most precious  wasting time must be the greatest prodigality  since lost time is never found again.
— Benjamin Franklin
Don't agonize. Organize.
— Florynce Kennedy
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
— Winston Churchill
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
— Margaret Mitchell
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
— Coco Chanel
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
— Charles Buxton
We have as much time as we need.
— Melody Beattie
Ah! the clock is always slow  it is later than you think.
— Robert W. Service
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think  all the walks I want to take  all the books I want to read  and all the friends I want to see.
— John Burroughs
What we love to do we find time to do.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
— Anonymous
There is time for everything.
— Thomas A. Edison
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
— Norman Cousins
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
— William Feather
Time is a fixed income and  as with any income  the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
— Margaret B. Johnstone
We shall never have more time. We have  and have always had  all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.
— Arnold Bennett
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces  and which most men throw away.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
— William A. Irwin
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
— Johann von Goethe
I recommend you to take care of the minutes  for the hours will take care of themselves.
— Lord Chesterfield
The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau  filling up the small spaces with small things.
— Sir Henry Haddow
One must learn a different... sense of time  one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
— Sister Mary Paul
An earnest purpose finds time  or makes it. It seizes on spare moments  and turns fragments to golden account.
— William Ellery Channing
The butterfly counts not months but moments  and has time enough.
— Rabindranath Tagore
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more  garnering the simple goodness of life.
— Euripides
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
— Margaret Bonnano
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen  as by little advantages that occur every day.
— Benjamin Franklin
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
— Charles W. Eliot
A fool bolts pleasure  then complains of indigestion.
— Minna Antrim
Happiness is to be found along the way  not at the end of the road  for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today  this hour  this minute is the day  the hour  the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good  with all of its trials and troubles  and perhaps more interesting because of them.
— Robert R. Updegraff
Each day provides its own gifts.
— Martial
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end  the more tempting the minute.
— Theodore Fontane
Happiness is not a state to arrive at  but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither  but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
— Thornton Wilder
Those who face that which is actually before them  unburdened by the past  undistracted by the future  these are they who live  who make the best use of their lives  these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
— Alban Goodier
And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street  heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival.
— David Douglas Duncan
Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk  or watching a flower  or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.
— Gersi Douchan
If you observe a really happy man  you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
— W. Beran Wolfe
To fill the hour  that is happiness  to fill the hour  and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
— Anonymous
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
— John Dryden
Live in day-tight compartments.
— Dale Carnegie
If you are not happy here and now  you never will be.
— Taisen Deshimaru
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
— Joe Garagiola
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
— Sara Jordon
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work  the day's honest decisions  the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Leisure for reverie  gay or somber  does much to enrich life.
— Miriam Beard
A man should hear a little music  read a little poetry  and see a fine picture every day of his life  in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
— Johann von Goethe
You have to set new goals every day.
— Julie Krone
I have resolved that from this day on  I will do all the business I can honestly  have all the fun I can reasonably  do all the good I can willingly  and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
— Grenville Kleiser
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart  to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
— Grenville Kleiser
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Thomas Carlyle
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
— Cary Grant
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
— Anonymous
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction  then ... life is on the road toward misfortune  misery and destruction.
— Luther Burbank
A day's work is a day's work  neither more nor less  and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance  a night's repose and due leisure  whether he be painter or ploughman.
— George Bernard Shaw
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
— Willie Mays
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
— Mark Twain
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A homer a day will boost my pay.
— Josh Gibson
Act well at the moment  and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
If I had my life to live over  I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.
— Nadine Stair
Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
— Sandor Minab
Love  and do what you like.
— Saint Augustine
Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.
— Robin Casarjean
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts  but by his ordinary doing.
— Blaise Pascal
The great business of life is to be  to do  to do without  and to depart.
— Anonymous
Know what you want to do  hold the thought firmly  and do every day what should be done  and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
— Epictetus
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
— Benjamin Franklin
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day  if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day  it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
— Horace Mann
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done  but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months  but you don't get the fourth without it.
— Mordecai Richler
Take short views  hope for the best  and trust in God.
— Sydney Smith
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
— George Matthew Adams
When action grows unprofitable  gather information  when information grows unprofitable  sleep.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
I long to accomplish a great and noble task  but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
— Helen Keller
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
— Woody Allen
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us  no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken  get to work on that.
— Epictetus
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer  and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
— Sara Jordan
To look up and not down  To look forward and not back  To look out and not in  and To lend a hand.
— Edward Everett Hale
I like the man who faces what he must  With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer  Who fights the daily battle without fear.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
— Publilius Syrus
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— Anonymous
One should count each day a separate life.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If  every day  I dare to remember that I am here on loan  that this house  this hillside  these minutes are all leased to me  not given  I will never despair.
— Erica Jong
To live each day as though one's last  never flustered  never apathetic  never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
— Marcus Aurelius
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
— Betty Smith
The years seem to rush by now  and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
— George Eliot
Study as if you were going to live forever  live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— Maria Mitchell
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal  those that dare misspend it are desperate.
— Joseph Hall
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow  you'd be content with yourself.
— Jane Seymour
Happy the man  and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who  secure within  can say "Tomorrow  do thy worst For I have lived today."
— Henry Fielding
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.
— Horatio W. Dresser
There are only three colors  ten digits  and seven notes  it's what we do with them that's important.
— Ruth Ross
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
— Booker T. Washington
Do each daily task the best we can  act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
— William Feather
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm  miracles can happen.
— Arland Gilbert
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing  it's when you've had everything to do  and you've done it.
— Margaret Thatcher
So get a few laughs and do the best you can.
— Will Rogers
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
— Charles F. Deems
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows  he breathes  but does not live.
— Sanskrit proverb
You have not lived a perfect day  even though you have earned your money  unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— Ruth Smeltzer
Think that day lost whose descending sun  views from thy hand no noble action done.
— Joseph Joubert
I expect to pass through life but once. If  therefore  there can be any kindness I can show  or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being  let me do it now.
— William Penn
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
— Nicolas de Chamfort
Each day  and the living of it  has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
— May Sarton
Sweets are good for the nerves.
— Margarete Bieber
Fat gives things flavor.
— Julia Child
Friends  I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
— Don Marquis
If someone said  "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write  "I want to go outside and play."
— Jenna Elfman
Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.
— Kathryn Murray
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.
— George Matthew Adams
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun  some joy  some real satisfaction  that day is a loss.
— Anonymous
Take time every day to do something silly.
— Philipa Walker
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.
— Julia Child
Come  let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
— Saint Bonaventura
No matter what looms ahead  if you can eat today  enjoy the sunlight today  mix good cheer with friends today  enjoy it and bless God for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day  but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.
— Ted Bengermino
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
— Albert Schweitzer
We cannot do everything at once  but we can do something at once.
— Calvin Coolidge
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
— Bernard M. Baruch
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.
— T. L. Gayler
I look back on my life like a good day's work  it is done  and I am satisfied with it.
— Grandma Moses