Spending Your Time Quotes

• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Keys, Investing

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Development, Purpose Driven Life

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

  Joel Osteen

  Live Life, Love You, Giving

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2013

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Giving, Attention

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

  Cornel West

  Inspirational, Giving, Purpose Driven Life

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• And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

  Candace Bushnell

  Past, Spending, Your Future

  FaceBook post by Candace Bushnell from Mar 18, 2014

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• For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Creativity, People, Goal

  "Seinfeld finds new 'space and place' with Web series". Interview with Ryan Nakashima, October 7, 2015.

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• When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

  Will Smith

  Love, Life, Friends

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• Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Style, Alive

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• Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and don’t give it away casually. Don’t compare yourself to others — nearly always this will make you despondent. Don’t accept somebody else’s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Wise, Children, Emotional

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• Act in accordance with your true beliefs by spending your time on those things that will build and develop your character and help you become more Christlike. I hope none of you see life as primarily fun and games but rather as a time 'to prepare to meet God.'

  Quentin L. Cook

  Fun, Character, Games

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• Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

  Al Duncan

  Achievement, Investing Your Time, Spending

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• But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

  Confucius

  Business, Effort, Taoism

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• The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
  Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Mean, Egypt, Missing

  Priscilla Shirer (2010). “One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

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• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Time, Live Life

  The Last Lecture, 2008.

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• Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred

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• The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

  Robin Sharma

  Positive, Real, Opportunity

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.22, Jaico Publishing House

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• Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, One Day, May

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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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