Time is not a thing to be wasted, for it is given you for the purpose of
working out your destiny.
Time does not belong to you, it is a loan and sometime, perhaps before
you are ready, the loan will be called in.
It is said that “Time is Money.” This is not to be understood as meaning
dollars and cents, but as something valuable to you. A drink of water is
not cash money, but it is valuable to a thirsty man.
The proverb “Waste not, want not,” is as applicable to time as it is to
bread and meat, clothing or money.
Yet we are wasting time when we stick at trifles, embark in trivial
things, or are connected with something not worth the trouble of
exploiting.
A man who wastes his time soon acquires a reputation for being good for
little else than small things, a trifling character, and his wages or
salary is gauged upon his dawdling peculiarities.
Every man is considered as large as the things he does and no larger,
and the time he steals—yes, steals from himself, he will try to steal
from others.
It is not necessary to keep in constant motion, or always at work to
save time, but idle things, trifling matters, idle words and silly
things are a mere waste of time.
You must prepare for the time of need, the time of trouble, and
generally look ahead of you, and you can do this only by not wasting
your present time of action.
There will come a period when time shall be no more; when you will look
back and sigh over wasted moments.
Take time to be cheerful, for amusement, for pleasure, of course. Such
things are good for the soul and body, and the time is not wasted when
they are reasonable and decent.