Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

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

Short cuts make long delays.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The future is purchased by the present.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.