Top 100 Well Spent Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry
#3. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
Tahir Shah
#4. As a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep
so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying
Leonardo Da Vinci
#5. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
Elliott Colla
#6. The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.
Charlie Munger
#7. It is my hope that when a reader chooses to suspend their reality for mine, that it will be time well spent.
Sharon Van Orman
#9. You paid $3,000 dollars for me.
- Money well spent for a woman beyond price. Knowing what I do now, I'd pay a thousand times that amount and consider myself blessed.
Carla Capshaw
#10. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.
Ted Nicholas
#11. Time will tell if it was well spent.
Time will tell where all your ideas went.
Time will allow you to achieve your goals.
Time is too precious to put on hold.
Don't waste time on meaningless things.
Take advantage of its benefits and all life brings.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#12. Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
Alexander Pope
#13. 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
#14. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.
Tony Visconti
#16. The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
Thomas A Kempis
#17. 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
#18. No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
#19. He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
Isabel Allende
#20. It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
Jean Toomer
#22. 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
#23. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
#24. The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Life, if well spent, is long.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#25. 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
#26. Not having money to spend doesn't mean we can't have well-spent moments every day. (42)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#27. 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
#28. A day in which you write something is a day well-spent.
Anastasia Marie
#29. Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
Paul Washer
#31. Everything good you see is a product of time well spent
Sunday Adelaja
#32. Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark
#33. It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
Johnny Olson
#34. Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
Zig Ziglar
#35. Production is the greatest assessment of time well spent
Sunday Adelaja
#38. A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
Leonardo Da Vinci
Joe Kenogbon
#39. Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
Donna Tartt
#40. 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
#41. Time well spent is an investment of the past for a practical and bright Future.
Victor John Lao
#42. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill Gates
#44. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
#45. 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
#46. Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.
Barack Obama
#47. All time spent reading is time well-spent.
W. H. Auden
#48. 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
#49. As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#50. 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
#51. The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
Joseph Joubert
#53. they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent.
Ken Follett
#54. 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
#55. Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
Robert Half
#56. 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
#57. Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.
Tim Radford
#58. 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
#60. The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
Evelyn Waugh
#61. If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Carl Karcher
#62. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.
Ian McDonald
#63. Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.
Suzanne Bonamici
#64. I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
Gary Numan
#66. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
Sunday Adelaja
#67. The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
Catherine McCormack
#68. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#69. She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.
Rick Riordan
#71. I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.
Dan Trachtenberg
#73. Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.
Russ Feingold
#74. I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
might have been
Dave Matthews Band
#75. I hadn't known that,' I said. 'I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.' 'There might as well be,' Arsibalt said, 'but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs.
Neal Stephenson
#77. I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.
Anthony Warlow
#78. I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Salman Rushdie
#79. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#80. I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
Teddy Sears
#81. The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever-increasing economic disparity, and the well-funded legislative decisions, all favor corporate interests over the people.
Neil Young
#82. I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
Brunello Cucinelli
#85. Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
Barry Levinson
#86. The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
Ann Cotton
#87. I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
D.J. Cotrona
#88. It's about time I spent time on what's really important." "Well, work, then dinner, then you can do what's really important." Then he added, "You know I'm what's important, don't you? I meant that you can do me.
N.R. Walker
#90. You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#91. The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#99. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
Tony Goldwyn
