Great Throughts Treasury

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Theophrastus NULL

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Character | Time | Waste |

H. W. Andrews

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

Action | Better | Consideration | Courage | Decision | Experience | Failure | Fear | Habit | Judgment | Man | Mind | Nothing | Position | Question | Responsibility | Right | Time | Will | Wisdom | Failure |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Time | Wisdom |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are... Pass them through this little space of time comformably to nature, and end thy journey in content.

Journey | Little | Nature | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Grand is the seen, the light, to me - grand are the sky and stars, grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space, but grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those, lighting the slight, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea, (what were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?) More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul! More multiform far - more lasting thou than they.

Character | Earth | Light | Soul | Space | Time |

Elsa Yur'evna Triolet, Born Ella Kagan

Killing time or killing yourself amounts to the same thing, strictly speaking.

Character | Time |

Edwin Percy Whipple

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down to the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the common sense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Character | Common Sense | Light | Men | Morality | Nations | Proverbs | Sense | Time | Wise | Wit | Old |

Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

If we conceive of some point of time which cannot be divided into even the minutes parts of moments, that is the only point that can be called present: and that point flees at such lightning speed from being future to being past, that it has no extent of duration at all.

Future | Past | Present | Time | Wisdom |

Andy Warhol

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Change | Character | Time |

Avraham Yellin

Keep in mind that we are in this world for a very short time and the things that upset us are of minor importance in the entire scheme of the universe.

Character | Mind | Time | Universe | World |

Arthur Warwick

As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend; I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better; if I am longer bad, I shall I am sure, be worse.

Better | Character | Despair | Good | Neglect | Past | Present | Time | Will |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of ages. In this flowing stream, then on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows, which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Existence | Hurry | Love | Man | Price | Time | Wisdom | World |

Edward Noyes Westcott

Get all you can without hurting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.

Body | Character | Eternal | Good | Life | Life | Soul | Time |