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Quotes About Time

"If it is worth spending 12 to 20 years to prepare for a life of 75 years, what is it worth to prepare for a life that never ends?"

Elder LeGrand Richards


"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it!"


"If you can't find the time to do something right the first time...where will you find the time to do it over?"


"If you are going to kill time...Try working it to death."


"Don't try to live too many days at a time."

Harold B. Lee


"How you spend your hours equals who you are today."

Dr. Stephen Bavolek, Psychologist--


"You don't find time......You make it!"


"In an effort to insure my children's tomorrows, I have lost their todays."

Danny Thomas


"Time is much like manna:  We can't hoard it.  We can't save it.  The Lord allots each day its own supply."

Richard L. Evans


"When the time to perform has arrived, the time to prepare has passed."


"It's not the number of hours one puts in that counts, but what one puts into the hours."


"Today is the wise man's day, tomorrow is the fool's day.  The wise man is the one when he sees what ought to be done, does it today.  The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, 'I will do it tomorrow.'"


"Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time--limited as that commodity is in our days of probation.  One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate."

Spencer W. Kimball


"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money.  Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever."


"I can hardly wish any man better, than that he would seriously consider what he does with his time; how and to what ends he employs it; and what returns he makes to God." 

Benjamin Franklin


"Tomorrow:   One of the greatest labor saving devices of today."


"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 gets a full year's value out of a week."

Charles Richards


"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty well done."

George MacDonald


"How you use today will determine how tomorrow will use you."


"There is not a single moment in life that we can afford to lose."

Edward M. Goulburn