Well Spent Quotes

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ~ Jill Lepore

Use your time to gain knowledge ~ Sunday Adelaja

Investment is the best thing to do with time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Joblessness is a time for reflection ~ Sunday Adelaja

Invest in yourself by discovering your gift ~ Sunday Adelaja

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. ~ Tahir Shah

Always be a blessing to others ~ Sunday Adelaja

Wisdom is the result of time well spent ~ Sunday Adelaja

A moment well spent is the best accomplishment. Yesterday is a phantom and tomorrow a mirage. The only day worth living is this one. If we can do that wekl, the yesterdays and tomorrows take care of themselves ~ James Gurney

Time well spent leads to life well lived. ~ Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

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

If I end my life defending those who need it most, then I will consider it a death well spent. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent. ~ Ted Nicholas

You can create any product from time ~ Sunday Adelaja

All time spent reading is time well-spent. ~ W. H. Auden

For work: I bought some pens. Normally, I used makeshift pens, the kind of unsatisfactory implements that somehow materialized in my bag or in a drawer. But one day, when I was standing in line to buy envelopes, I caught sight of a box of my favorite kind of pen: the Deluxe Uniball Micro. "Two ninety-nine for one pen!" I thought. "That's ridiculous." But after a fairly lengthy internal debate, I bought four. It's such a joy to write with a good pen instead of making do with an underinked pharmaceutical promotional pen picked up from a doctor's office. My new pens weren't cheap, but when I think of all the time I spend using pens and how much I appreciate a good pen, I realize it was money well spent. Finely made tools help make work a pleasure. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. ~ Jill Lepore

Beautiful is old age - beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful. ~ James Anthony Froude

A life well spent is one lived for the fulfilment of purpose ~ Topsy Gift

every minute spent on good sleep, it was well spent; unless you are sleeping outside under the stars ~ Rodolfo Peon

Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

Everything is a product of time because it took a particular period of time to achieve that result ~ Sunday Adelaja

As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You attract poverty when you lack value for time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth ~ Sunday Adelaja

Convert everything around you into meaningful products ~ Sunday Adelaja

Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered. ~ James C. Collins

Everything is derived from time ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

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

You have a thousand hearts' worth of love to give. A thousand tears may fall when one heart breaks. But never cry for shame." He kept my chin in his thick hand. "Even love lost was well-spent. ~ Emma Scott

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

Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself ~ Sunday Adelaja

We talk of literature as if it were a mere matter of rule and measurement, a series of processes long since brought to mechanical perfection: but it would be less incorrect to say that it all lies in the future; tried by the outdoor standard, there is as yet no literature, but only glimpses and guideboards; no writer has yet succeeded in sustaining, through more than some single occasional sentence, that fresh and perfect charm. If by the training of a lifetime one could succeed in producing one continuous page of perfect cadence, it would be a life well spent, and such a literary artist would fall short of Nature's standard in quantity only, not in quality. ~ Brenda Wineapple

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

Information that a book possesses is made of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

A day in which you write something is a day well-spent. ~ Anastasia Marie

Money is a product of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

You multiply your life when you invest it ~ Sunday Adelaja

You can never grow when you don't place value on time ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun. ~ Eknath Easwaran

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. ~ Joseph Joubert

Let the Good vibe Sunday well spent to bring us a week of content. ~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

The tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time ~ Sunday Adelaja

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ~ Thomas Carlyle

What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the headphones that look like donuts on your ears, doesn't it make life so much smaller? If absolutely everything important is only happening on such a small screen, isn't that a shame? Especially when the world is so overwhelmingly large and surprising? Are you missing too much? You can't imagine it now, but you'll look like me one day, even though you'll feel just the same as you do now. You'll catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think how quickly it's all gone, and I wonder if all the time you used watching those families whose lives are filmed for the television, and making those cartoons of yourselves with panting dog tongues, and chasing after that terrible Pokémon fellow…well, will it feel like time well spent? ~ Lauren Graham

Getting fired from work is not a tragedy ~ Sunday Adelaja

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ~ Simeon Strunsky

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 a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth. ~ William Hazlitt

A long life is a life well spent. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom ~ Sunday Adelaja

Vodka at night. Pickle juice in the morning (the best thing for a hangover). Throwing some kettlebells around between this hangover and the next one. A Russian's day well spent. The 'kettlebell' or girya is a cast iron weight which looks like a basketball with a suitcase handle. It is an old Russian toy. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook put it, "It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the ~ Pavel Tsatsouline

Time is the source of greatness ~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything depends on the wealth of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Time sleeping is always well spent. ~ A.E. Marling

A well-spent day brings happy sleep ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Time is the resource that gives birth to other things ~ Sunday Adelaja

Time is taken to derive wisdom ~ Sunday Adelaja

Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent. ~ Ian McDonald

The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life. ~ Ronald Reagan

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Our resources are made from time ~ Sunday Adelaja

As a man going to battle, and as a beast of great appetite, he deserved to savor them together. This was time well spent - they would do anything to please their master. ~ Vanessa Gravenstein

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it. ~ Charlie Munger

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you ~ Sunday Adelaja

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Total time spent together with effort yields the value of a product ~ Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time ~ Sunday Adelaja

When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent. ~ Jinkx Monsoon

Time spent laughing is time well spent. ~ J.C. Phillipps

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent. ~ Eula Biss

Time can be used to convert anything ~ Sunday Adelaja

Invest your time adding value to others ~ Sunday Adelaja

Money is a compensation for time spent ~ Sunday Adelaja

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson. ~ James D. Houston

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

she said, when I wear these boots no one fucks with me
when I tie my past like a scarf around my throat
I can freeze the blood
of every naive and unabashed up-and-comer
when I slide on my desire like glowing black stockings
I can make the uninitiated beg
for the feel of raw and stinging wood
and when I slip my angry black leather belt
from its rusty hook
the ambitious and guileless cower
like a thousand condemned souls
when I close my fist, my rings golden
with a youth well spent
the warriors of Gilead surrender
with a breathless whimper
and when my shoulders
feel the rough comfort of my serape woven with the fibers
of a fierce and relentless vengeance
you will soon realize
these are not my clothes after all, she says,
they are warning signs ~ Daniel Ames

We are products of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Life is a totality of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything good you see is a product of time well spent ~ Sunday Adelaja

You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time ~ Sunday Adelaja

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ~ Arthur Capper

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

Humans are created out of time ~ Sunday Adelaja

Use time to convert yourself ~ Sunday Adelaja

Primer of Love [Lesson 30]
I didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

Lesson 30) First fall in love, then grow in love,
then harvest in love.

The falling is the chemistry, the growing is the botany and the harvesting is the phenomenology of love. A couple in love is always planting seeds and nurturing them with tears and laughter. When their old they have this prickly bush in the garage they have no fucking idea what to do with. Really, they harvest a life well spent.

ღ ღ ღ ~ Beryl Dov