“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.”
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
“In time of war the laws are silent.”
“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”
“Make measurable progress in reasonable time.”
“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
“I spend a lot of time reading.”
“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
“It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.”
“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”