Benjamin Franklin Time Quotations

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

He that rises late must trot all day.

One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

You may delay, but time will not.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Lost time is never found again.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Time is money.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it....

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the Time he is like to be kept out of it: therefore