There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Energy begets energy.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Always do whatever’s next.

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.

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

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Computers make me totally blank out.

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.

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

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

We must use time creatively.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

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

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Lost time is never found again.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

You may delay, but time will not.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.