“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”– Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes “Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”– George Bernard Shaw “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”– Tony Robbins “The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”– Bertrand Russell