Lord Chesterfield Quotes about Time

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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Positive, Time, Care

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

Lord Chesterfield

Inspirational, Positive, Time

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.130

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Lord Chesterfield

Wise, Time, Ignorance

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.498

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Lord Chesterfield

Time, Years, Two

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Lord Chesterfield

Birthday, Time, Liars

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.179

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

Lord Chesterfield

Time, Enemy, Resentment

"The Modern Chesterfield".