Time Management Quotes - Page 11

• Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jan 28, 2013

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• Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

  William Gibson

  Time, Memories, Moving

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.37, Penguin

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• Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

  Shaun Alexander

  Time, Heal, Picks

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• Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Procrastination, Delay

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

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• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clear Goals, Excellence, Loyal

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• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

  Tillie Olsen

  Time, Remember

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.278, Rutgers University Press

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Education

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• Make a good use of the present.

  Horace

  Time, Use

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• Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Thinking, Quiet

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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Passing Away, All Things

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.28, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, New Year, Time

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Time brings all things to pass.

  Aeschylus

  Time, All Things

  Aeschylus (1942). “Aeschylus I”

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• You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Time, Fame, Born

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• You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

  Arnold Bennett

  Good Morning, Time, Purses

  "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day".

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• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Men

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Preparation, Routine

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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch

  Time, Counselor, Wisest

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• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Wish, Ask Me

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2011). “Confessions”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Philosophical, Men

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• Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Hunting, Growing

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus,

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Losing, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

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• Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

  Joseph Addison

  Time, Eternity

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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