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Time Management Quotes

Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.

Robert Orben

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Buddha

Do what is important first; do what is urgent later.

Unknown

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives.

John C. Maxwell

People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.

Zig Ziglar

A wise person does at once what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Baltasar Gracián

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.

Carl Sandburg

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Time waits for no one.

Folklore

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publius Syrus

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

Time management is life management.

Robin Sharma

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Eva Young

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

Stephen R. Covey

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Aeschylus

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

Jonathan Estrin

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

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Jean de La Bruyère

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Pericles

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.

Denis Waitley

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand.

Napoleon Hill

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Steve Jobs

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

Time is what we want most and what we use worst.

William Penn

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Gene Wilder

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’

Lao Tzu

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Michael Altshuler

Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command.

Napoleon Hill

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

Leo Kennedy

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Time is a created thing. To say, 'I don't have time,' is to say, 'I don't want to.'

Lao Tzu

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Lucille S. Harper

Time moves slowly but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Benjamin Franklin

There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.

Jack Bergman

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.

Zig Ziglar

It’s not about having time, it’s about making time.

Unknown

You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

Ashley Ormon

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Peter Drucker

The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.

Mozart

A goal without a timeline is just a dream.

Robert Herjavec

Time management is really about managing yourself.

Brian Tracy

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it now, but how you use or don’t use your time is the best indicator of where you are going to end up in life.

Mark Cuban

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 Jr.

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen R. Covey

Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield