Lock in on What Matters Most Quotes
Busy is not the same as productive. The man who finds the few actions that drive most of his results, and cuts the rest, multiplies every hour he works. This Productivity path holds history's sharpest quotes on priorities and time. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
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“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
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“It is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are we busy about?”
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“Do not be busy. Be productive.”
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“Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.”
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“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life.”
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“Money is time and time is life. When you take someone's money from them, you're taking their life.”
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
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“It's not about time, it's about choices. How are you spending your choices?”
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
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“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
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“Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”
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“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
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“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
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“Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.”
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“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time”
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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
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“Don't ever say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
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“Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.”
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“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
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“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
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“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
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“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in.”
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“Shift from being busy to achieving results.”
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“Your daily schedule reflects your deepest values.”
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“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
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“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
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“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
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“You have to balance your passions, not your time.”
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“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
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“There is no better measure of your values than how you spend your time.”
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“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
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“Instead of saying 'I don't have time,' try saying 'it's not a priority.'”
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“You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.”
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“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.”
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“Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
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“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
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“The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.”
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“If you have more than three priorities, you have none.”
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“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
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“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”
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“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
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“It is better to say, 'This one thing I do' than to say, 'These forty things I dabble in.'”
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“You can do anything, but not everything.”
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“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”
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“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
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“It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
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“Anything that matters requires your full attention.”
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