Arnold Bennett

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

'Ye can call it influenza if ye like,' said Mrs. Machin. 'There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.'

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality.

The moment you're born you're done for.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.