A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Quote Author

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

Sathya Sai Baba

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Nhat Hanh

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

W. W. Rouse Ball

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

Wesley Clark

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

Rita Hayworth

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Thomas A. Edison

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Jay Samit

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Sri Chinmoy

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

Bob McNair

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

Nikki Giovanni

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.