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Lost time is never found again.

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Positive, Time
Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Hate, Haste Makes Waste

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

Benjamin Franklin
Birthday, Time, Growing Up
'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Time, Short Life
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Money, Use
Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.38

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Leisure, Leisure Time

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Greatness, Men
Benjamin Franklin (1811). “The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin”, p.155

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Tomorrow Never Comes, Faults
Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Procrastination, Delay

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Money, Organization
Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Horse, War

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Men, Age
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Years, Liberty

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Poor Richard, Ifs
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Time, Age
Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Work, Procrastination
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin
Leadership, Time, Time Is Money
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

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

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Purpose, Littles
"The Autobiography and Other Writings".

He that rises late must trot all day.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Laziness, Kick Ass
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Giving, Treasure
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.196, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Hours, Minutes
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Love Life, Two

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

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Time, Taken

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

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Liberty, Leisure
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.250

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