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 Enduring quotes on time

Time is the most precious time we can give to each other.
                                                                             L. Walkup

 

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.   --Theophrastus

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

What can be done at any time is never done at all.   -- English Proverb

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,  and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  --Carl Sandburg

You control your life by controlling your time. Hyrum Smith  The Ten Natural Laws of Time and Life Management

The whole purpose of time management is to enable you to
have more time to spend with the people you love, doing the
things you enjoy. -- Brian Tracy

Time is the wisest counselor of all.  --Pericles.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.   --John H. Patterson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.  Golda Meir

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  H. Jackson Brown

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

If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.    --Ben Franklin

Time is lessened when we preoccupy ourselves with something greater than our own existence.   JoAnne Bonomi

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.   -- Dion Boucicalt

Lost time is never found again.  --Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not. -- Benjamin Franklin

Time wasted is existence; time used is life. Edward Young

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.-- George Matthew Adams

Time management involves "considering your obligations and making choices about how to use your time" (grad school). 

Perhaps the most valuable result of al 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.  Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

Management of time is the number-one skill to master in college.   How you use time can determine your success or failure in college. Walter Pauk

Time Management is not so much about managing time (Time Management) as it is about  managing self (Self-Management). Walkup -  Class notes

Time Management is as much about doing less (dropping worthless activities, saying NO to people & distractions) as it s about doing more (meaningful activities). Walkup - class notes

Planning is the creative process of transforming a dream into a reality, and the ideal to the real.  It is creating and designing your life. Take time to plan; when there’s a plan, there’s a chance. Walkup - class notes

You DO have enough time for the things you really want to do!  Walkup - Class notes

I have plenty of time for what matters.   Walkup - class notes

 The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. Rita Emmett

What gets rewarded gets done

Whatever you think you can or you think you can't you're right! Henry Ford

Time is life! Jean Reynolds

The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.  William James

Goals are dreams with a deadline.  Dottie Walters

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach

Time wasted is existence; time used is life. Edward Young

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. Victor Kiam

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. James A. Michener.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. Roy Disney

There is no perfect time to write. There's only now.  Barbara Kingsolver

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John Kennedy

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. L. Walkup

Time is the stuff of which life is made. Benjamin Franklin

The first step is the hardest.  --Madame De Vichy-Deffand

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what
you intend to do.               --  Liz Smith

The beginning is half of every action. --Greek proverb

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.      --  Annie Dilliard

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. 
Practice being a 'doer'!      --  Josh S. Hinds

Work expands to fill its time for completion.  Parkinson's Law

Don't mistake activity for achievement.  Business does not equal productiveness. Anon


The essence of time management is to focus on production. Ask yourself, 'What am I expected to produce, not what am I expected to do, but produce."-- Brian Tracy

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. Anon

The secret of a person's success is discovered in his daily agenda. - John C. Maxwell

Alan Lakein’s question from How to get Control of Your Time and Your Life:  What is the best use of my time right now?”

Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important. Charles E. Hummel.

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer. -- Denis Waitley


You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. -- Charles Buxton
 


You've got to put down on paper the ten things that you absolutely have to do. That's what you concentrate on. Everything else - forget it. Lee Iacocca.

Time hasn't stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any
other malfunctions of this world, so please don't tell me
it will stop for you.  --C.S. Lewis


Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage
and initiative, leaders change things. --Jesse Jackson

Time is what we want most but what we use worst.  William Penn.

To waste your time is to waste your life. Alan Lakein

 Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy

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

There is no such thing as lack of time. We all have plenty of time to do everything we really want to do. Alan Lakein 

Every morning when the alarm goes off, we have a totally new opportunity to do what we want with the hours we have been gifted. And we are gifted with that clean slate every day for the rest of our lives. Hyrum Smith, Originator of the Franklin Planner, 2000 

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness.... never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. : Lord Chesterfield, Englishman   of letters (1694-1773)

 

 

 

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