"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."

Hilton, Alice Mary | self-esteem | 3 bookmarks

"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

Seneca | Procrastination | 1 bookmarks

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."

Mandino, Og | Procrastination | 3 bookmarks

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

Franklin, Benjamin | Procrastination | 3 bookmarks

"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."

Collier, Robert | Procrastination | 2 bookmarks

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."

Burr, Aaron | Procrastination | 2 bookmarks

"Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today."

Billings, Josh | Procrastination | 3 bookmarks

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."

Anthony, Dr. Robert | Procrastination | 3 bookmarks

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

Acton, Lord | Procrastination | 5 bookmarks

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Adversity | 15 bookmarks