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Famous Time Well Spent Quotes

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent — Jimmy Buffett

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. - John Lennon

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. — John Lennon

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. — Proverbs

A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted. — John Lennon

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees. — J. C. Ryle

Time stays long enough for those who use it. — Leonardo da Vinci

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together. — Drake

Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent. — Pio of Pietrelcina

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Diogenes

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. — Diogenes

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. — Theophrastus

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. — Louisa May Alcott

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell

Short Time Well Spent Quotes

  • Time is a precious thing. Never waste it. — Gene Wilder
  • Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. — Auguste Rodin
  • As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • Any time not spent on love is wasted. — Torquato Tasso
  • When Time is spent, Eternity begins. — Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods. — Japanese Proverbs
  • As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time. — David Brenner
  • All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God — Lahiri Mahasaya
  • The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. — Stephen Covey

Time Well Spent Image Quotes

Time well spent quote A sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
A sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

Money Well Spent Quotes

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. — Samuel Johnson

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. — Berthold Auerbach

If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent. — Thomas Sowell

Time well spent quote A treasured memory is the lasting gift of time well spent.
A treasured memory is the lasting gift of time well spent.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. — Frank A. Clark

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. — Bill Gates

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. — Zig Ziglar

Time well spent quote A treasured memory is the lasting gift of time well spent
A treasured memory is the lasting gift of time well spent

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's. — Neil Young

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well. — Bill Gates

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. — George J. Mitchell

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat — Jay Leno

Day Well Spent Quotes

Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day. — Debbie Shapiro

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well. — David Steindl-Rast

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. — Evelyn Waugh

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed. — Iyanla Vanzant

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. — Thomas a Kempis

Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. — Robert Browning

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun. — Gary Kemp

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. — Dave Matthews

Good Time Spend Quotes

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time — Bill Belichick

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. — Helen Keller

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. — Marlon Brando

Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty. — Chamath Palihapitiya

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. — Zig Ziglar

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. — Tug McGraw

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. — Denis Waitley

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi. — Tia Mowry

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield

I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time. — Joshua Harris

Well Spent Day Quotes

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent. — Garry Trudeau

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent. — James Lipton

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42) — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps. — Jonathan Frakes

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Worth Your Time Quotes

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein

Stop being a supporting player in the movie that is your life. Become the movie star. This is a hero's journey you have embarked upon. It's high time you start acting like it. — Rich Roll

If they pay you what you’re worth, then you can get your time back, and if you get your time back, then you can be hyperefficient. — Naval Ravikant

Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant? — Tom Hardy

When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again. — Bobby Allison

Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out? — Ken Griffey, Jr.

Have her try to prove to you why she is worth your time. — Corey Wayne

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. — Serge Daney

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding. — Millard Fuller

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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More Time Well Spent Quotes

Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. — Michel de Montaigne

Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head — Eddie Van Halen

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. — Ashton Kutcher

Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them. — Dalai Lama

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. — Laura Bush

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested. — J. Oswald Sanders

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward. — Frank Shorter

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do. — Simon Sinek

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up. — Eleanor Tomlinson

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. — Stephen Daldry

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture. — Benny Carter

I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights. — M. C. Escher

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's. — Catherine McCormack

Time spent on hiring is time well spent. — Robert Half

Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. — Carl Sagan

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. — Charles Dickens

Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin. — John H. Mccomb

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. — Donna Tartt

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future. — Johnny Olson

There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place. — Laura Belem

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance. — Cameron Crowe

The New York Times ran a story about [Jeff] Sessions meeting the Russian ambassador, and they ran Claire McCaskill's tweet excoriating Sessions for doing this and saying that he should resign. Well, then it was produced that Claire McCaskill had, in fact, sent two other tweets where she was bragging about having spent time with the Russian ambassador. So the New York Times, rather than print that, just removed her from the whole story. — Rush Limbaugh

When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent. — Kate DiCamillo

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now. — Dan Trachtenberg

I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would! — Zach Condon

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise. — John Fowles

I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that. — Giovani Bernard

I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well. — D. J. Cotrona

The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes. — Jay Leno

It's an adventure. I mean I spent a lot of time in the Himalayas and over the years have come to know them very well. I would say most important is the first sense you have in a place like that, and that is the sense of being on an adventure. — Joe Rohde

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them — Dan Schilling

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well. — J. Oswald Sanders

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking. — Chris Hadfield

Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent. — Paul Washer

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger. — Syd Barrett

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it. — Julia Gillard

At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said. — J. R. R. Tolkien

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing. — John Taylor Gatto

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