900 Best Time Management Quotes To Inspire You (2023)
1. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that is why they call it the present.“ – Kung Fu Panda
2. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.“
3. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
4. “Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.”
5. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.“ – Leonardo Da Vinci
6. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves”
7. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
8. “Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.“
9. “We must use time creatively — and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.“ — Martin Luther King Jr.
10. What do you want?
11. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.“
12. “What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.“
13. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
14. “Tough times never last, but tough people do”
15. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein
16. “Don’t be stomping on ants when you have elephants to feed.”
17. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.“
18. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.” -John Randolph
19. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.”
20. “I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.“
21. “One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.”
22. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it”
23. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent, and not enough time on what is important.” – Steven Covey
24. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” – Thomas Edison.
25. “it’s amazing the amount of achievements someone can accomplish by managing well the gift call 24 hours.” ― Manuel Corazzari
26. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
27. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” -Tony Robbins
28. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
29. “Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.” -William Shakespeare
30. “The idea is to make decisions and act on them — to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.“ — Karen Kakascik
31. “It’s surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.”
32. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
33. “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.”
34. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.“
35. “The trouble is, you think you have time”
36. “A better present makes for a good past and future.“
37. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.” – Tony Robbins
38. “The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel, and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” – Tony Robbins
39. “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.” -Richard G. Scott
40. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.”
41. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
42. “You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.”
43. “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
44. “Time management is life management.” -Robin Sharma
45. “Begin with the end in mind.”
46. We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. – Arianna Huffington
47. “Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles
48. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn
49. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” —Louis E. Boone
50. “Always Be Fabulous”
51. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey
52. “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” – Jean de la Bruyère, “Les Caracteres” (1688).
53. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
54. “You have to put focus in it and you also have to measure it.”
55. “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.“
56. “Time is non-renewable.” – Neeraj Agnihotri
57. “Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. – John C. Maxwell
58. “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.”
59. “Half our time is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
60. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.“
61. “There’s no multitasking with the moment.”
62. “How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.“
63. “To choose time is to save time.“
64. “Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.” -One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
65. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.”
66. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin
67. “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” – William Penn
68. It covers a wide range of topics, from goal setting to time management.
69. What successful time management looks like
70. “You can never plan the future by the past.“
71. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.“
72. “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
73. “He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.” -John Arthorne
74. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
75. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.”
76. “Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.”
77. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
78. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -Abraham Lincoln
79. “We all know our money isn’t infinite, yet we end up treating our time and energy and attention as if they are.”
80. “The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.“
81. “We are the generation capable of doing many things at once, without enjoying any of them.”
82. “Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.” – Mark Caine
83. “I cannot afford to waste my time making money.“
84. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight Eisenhower
85. “Figuring out what we need to do is not the challenge. The challenge is figuring out when to do it.” – Peter Turla
86. “Lost time is never found again.“
87. “Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.”
88. “You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” -Charles Bruxton
89. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.“
90. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” — Alan Lakein, author of How to Get Control of Your Time
91. “Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.“
92. “When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche
93. “If you really want to achieve it. Have a deadline on it. If not, you will never complete it.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
94. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
95. “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
96. “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” -Carl Sandburg
97. “Understand one thing – the time is the only actual currency you have. Even though it might be daunting for some people, it’s the ultimate truth.”
98. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
99. “What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass).”
100. “It’s not how many things you start that make you successful. It’s how many worthwhile things you finish.” – Peter Turla
101. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
102. “The timeless moment. — The ‘moment’ has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.“
103. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.” — Shoppenhauer
104. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” -Lord Chesterfield
105. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
106. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
107. “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.” -Leo Buscaglia
108. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!“
109. “So little time and so little to do.”
110. “I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management. – Michelle Williams
111. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
112. “Now is the watchword of the wise.“
113. “Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.“
114. “I don’t want your life to be about being a human doing. I want to be a human being where you experience what you really deserve, what you really want.”
115. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.” -- Zig Ziglar
116. “The way we spend our time defines who we are”
117. “Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. – William Shakespeare
118. “Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.“
119. “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — then it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity!“ – Albert Einstein
120. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today”
121. “If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”
122. “Time and tide wait for no man.“
123. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else.”
124. “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
125. “Time Management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.” – Stephen Covey
126. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”
127. “He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived but lost.” -Thomas Fuller
128. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
129. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.“
130. “He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.“
131. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
132. “City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead.“
133. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
134. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.“
135. The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
136. “You ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.”
137. “Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.“
138. “Don’t get sidetracked by people who are not on track.” – Anonymous
139. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.” -Henry Ward Beecher
140. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.“
141. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa.
142. “Where your attention goes, your time goes”
143. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” – Anthony Robbins.
144. “Without Everhour, we would be unable to accurately track the hours associated with each individual project we are working on as a company”
145. “Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.“
146. “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare
147. “To do two things at once is to do neither.“
148. “What gets measured gets managed.”
149. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ― Michael Altshuler
150. “The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization.”
151. “The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
152. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell, time management quotes for work
153. “The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” – Alexis Carrel
154. “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
155. “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” — Lord Chesterfield
156. “Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
157. “He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.“
158. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
159. Because a big portion of what I do doesn't have a rhythm or predictable cadence to it, I've made it an even bigger priority to create routine where I can. – Sara Blakely
160. “Doing one thing at a time is a recipe for a life that won’t keep up with your dreams.”
161. “It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.”
162. “Time management is about life management.”
163. “It’s not worth completing that which shouldn’t have been started in the first place.” – Peter Turla
164. “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” – Tony Robbins
165. Punctuality is the thief of time. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
166. “You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.“
167. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.“
168. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
169. “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
170. “The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.” – Chris GuillebeauCLICK TO TWEET
171. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
172. “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” – Sara Paddison
173. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett, legendary investor and second wealthiest American
174. “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus
175. The importance of focus and time
176. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” — Publius Syrus
177. “One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.” – P. W. Litchfield
178. Being congruent with your actions and beliefs
179. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus.
180. “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.“
181. “I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.“
182. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
183. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.“
184. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” -Bruce Lee
185. “If you haven’t got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?“
186. “Maybe you will be able to rebuild everything you have lost. But time, my friend, is always ticking. And remember, no matter what you do, you will never be able to win it back again.”
187. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Lord Chesterfield.
188. “Time is money. Use it wisely.” — Folorunsho Alakija, fashion and oil tycoon
189. “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
190. “For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.“
191. “You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
192. “Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.”
193. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin, inventor, diplomat and a Founding Father of the United States
194. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” -Napoleon Hill
195. “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.“
196. What about the other 8-hour shift?
197. “People always make time to do the things they really want to do.“
198. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight Eisenhower
199. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
200. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
201. “Rearranging your day around when you have the most energy is one simple way to work smarter instead of just harder.”
202. “There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.” ― Vanna Bonta, Shades Of The World
203. “Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.” – Winifred Gallagher
204. “Make a good use of the present.“
205. “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
206. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau
207. “Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.“
208. “Time management is about life management.” – Idowu Koyenikan
209. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”
210. “In this world, one of the biggest illusions that we live in is that we have unlimited time. With that mindset, we are uncontrolled to waste it as much as we can.”
211. “As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”
212. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau.
213. “If you work without being distracted, you can do so much in one hour. Something that is not even achievable in a month, especially if you are not living with a Procrasdemon – a blood curdling time-wasting machine.”
214. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch”
215. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Anonymous
216. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa
217. “Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.”
218. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane
219. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
220. Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles.
221. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin.
222. Auditing your time
223. “Where your attention goes, your time goes.” – Idowu Koyenikan
224. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
225. “Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.”
226. “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, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
227. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.“
228. “You may delay, but time will not.“
229. “Monday is the key day of the week.“ – Anonymous
230. “We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” – William Shakespeare
231. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
232. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. – Alan Lakein
233. “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.” – Barry Werner
234. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.“
235. “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.“ — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
236. “One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.” ― Brian Tracy
237. “Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.“
238. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. – Charles Richards
239. “People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they are doing something differently than everyone else.”
240. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy
241. “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” -Lee Iacocca
242. “Time and I against any two.“ – Baltasar Gracian
243. “How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.“ — David Norris
244. “One must learn a different sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.” -Sister Mary Paul
245. “Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.“
246. “Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
247. “Every second is of infinite value.”
248. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.“
249. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
250. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
251. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
252. “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”
253. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” -Eva Young
254. “What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.“
255. “It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.” – Marcia Wieder.
256. “Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.”
257. Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. – Louisa May Alcott
258. “The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose.”
259. “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”
260. “Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?“ – Alan Lakein
261. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.”
262. “Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”
263. “I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!”
264. “He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.“
265. “Nothing is swifter than our years.“
266. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.“ – Lucille S. Harper
267. “A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”
268. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.“
269. “When we are doing what we love, we don’t care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn’t exist and we are truly free.“ — Wieder Marcia
270. “A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.“
271. “Understand one thing – the time is the only actual currency you have. Even though it might be daunting for some people, it’s the ultimate truth.” – Neeraj Agnihotri
272. “This morning I stopped to watch the geese fly, even though I didn’t have the time to do so. And I realized that not having the time to do something might be the very reason why I need to do it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
273. I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir-
274. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
275. “Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.“
276. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn
277. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” -Anthony Robbins
278. “Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” -Jean De La Bruyere
279. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
280. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” — Tony Robbins
281. “You cannot manage what you can’t measure. So you’ve got to stop and measure it.”
282. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.“
283. The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. -Mike Murdock
284. “One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
285. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey.
286. “Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to”
287. “Better to be three hours too soon, than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
288. “Time is money.“
289. “Worry wastes time, envy wastes wealth.” ― Amit Kalantri
290. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.“
291. You can have it all. Just not all at once. -Oprah Winfrey
292. You miss 100% of the shots you never take
293. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” – Charles Richards
294. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.”
295. “You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.” -Henry David Thoreau
296. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” — Oprah Winfrey.
297. Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. -Brian Tracy
298. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” -Mike Murdock
299. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” -Thomas Edison
300. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” – Henry David Thoreau
301. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
302. “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.“
303. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the modern telephone
304. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” -Proverb
305. “What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.” – Arnold Palmer, time management quotes business
306. “Time goes, you say, Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
307. “I’m a multitasking procrastinator. I can put off all kinds of things all at once.”
308. “Free time was the most precious time when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.”
309. “Self-fulfillment grows when you use your time effectively for yourself and for others.” ― Margo Vader
310. “Be intent on the perfection of the present day.“
311. “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.“
312. “We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” – William Shakespeare.
313. “Time is the rider that breaks youth.“ – George Herbert
314. You can have it all. Just not all at once. – Oprah Winfrey
315. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
316. “If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”
317. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed”
318. “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.”
319. Power to decide…right now.
320. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson.
321. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now”
322. “To choose time is to save time.” -Francis Bacon
323. “Never let yesterday use up today.” -Richard H. Nelson
324. “He who know most grieves most for wasted time.” — Dante
325. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin.
326. “Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
327. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” – Delmore Schwartz
328. “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early“. – Groucho Marx
329. “All my possessions for a moment of time.“ — Queen Elizabeth
330. “It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.“
331. “If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
332. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
333. “Don’t count every hour in the day. Make every hour in the day count.” – Alfred Binet.
334. “If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?” – Richie Norton
335. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” -Bruce Lee
336. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time”
337. How you wear your pain or pleasure
338. “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.“
339. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
340. “Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” — Charles Caleb Colton
341. “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
342. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
343. “Time cuts down all, both great and small.“
344. “Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.“
345. “One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”
346. The trait productive people have
347. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
348. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey
349. “A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”
350. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” — Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
351. “One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.” -P. W. Litchfield
352. “Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.”
353. Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert H. Schuller
354. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” — Publius Syrus, ancient Roman writer
355. “Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.“
356. “I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have.”
357. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” – Louis E. Boone
358. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
359. “The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”
360. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
361. “People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.“
362. “One must learn a different sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.“
363. “Many people concentrate on what I call ‘ant stomping’ when they should concentrate on ‘elephant hunting.’ When you focus on stomping ants you confuse activity with accomplishment.” – Peter Turla.
364. “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.“
365. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
366. “Massive action is the cure all. Take massive action and effectively execute.”
367. “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got” -Lee Iacocca
368. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
369. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffet
370. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.“
371. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
372. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” ― Tony Morgan
373. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
374. “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
375. “Those who make the worst of their time most complain about its shortness.” – La Bruyere
376. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
377. “For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.“
378. “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.“
379. “Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
380. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.” -Sir John Lubbock
381. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey, time management quotes by Stephen Covey
382. “All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” -Baltasar Gracian
383. “time management’ is really a misnomer–the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”
384. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.”
385. “Time is the only critic without ambition.“
386. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.“ — Mike Murdock
387. “Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.“
388. “You love what you find time to do.“
389. “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.” – Tony Robbins
390. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.“ – John F. Kennedy
391. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.“
392. “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.“
393. “You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff—your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed.” ― Austin Kleon
394. “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
395. Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” – Winston Churchill
396. “If you want to have a high-quality personal life, plan a high-quality personal life.” – Peter Turla
397. Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” – Earl Nightingale
398. “Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.”
399. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” – Alan Lakein
400. “Fugit irreparable tempos”
401. “When the time is right, you just got to do it.“
402. “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity”
403. “How did it get so late so soon?” – Dr. Seuss
404. The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do. – Emily Weiss
405. “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.” – Napoleon Hill
406. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
407. “Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.“
408. “If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.“
409. “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.“
410. “A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
411. “It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
412. “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
413. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
414. “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.”
415. “Life is half spent before one knows what it is.“
416. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management — just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.”
417. “the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.”
418. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” – David Allen.
419. Start Journaling.
420. “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
421. “Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.“
422. “You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” ― Ashley Ormon
423. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -Anthony Robbins
424. “The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.“
425. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.“
426. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
427. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” — Dwight Eisenhower, former U.S. President
428. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.“
429. “One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.“
430. “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
431. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
432. “One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.“
433. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?“
434. A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
435. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” -Stephen Covey
436. “Because a big portion of what I do doesn’t have a rhythm or predictable cadence to it, I’ve made it an even bigger priority to create routine where I can.” – Sara Blakely.
437. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
438. Change stuff around, experiment
439. “Time and tide wait for no man.“ — Geoffrey Chaucer
440. “To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.“ – Anonymous
441. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.“
442. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb
443. “In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.“
444. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” – Harry Potter
445. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”
446. “It’s not about having the time, it’s about managing the time you already have.” ― Rob Liano
447. Take massive action to become productive
448. “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.“ – Charles Dickens
449. “The idea is to make decisions and act on them — to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.“
450. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.”
451. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.”
452. “The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: ‘I did not have time.’”
453. “Time is the fairest and toughest judge.“ – Edgar Quinet
454. “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”
455. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.“
456. “Why kill time when one can employ it.“
457. “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” – Sara Paddison.
458. “You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.”
459. “The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do”
460. “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.”
461. “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” – Pericles
462. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” — Charles Richards
463. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married” (1911).
464. “When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.“
465. “Now is definitely the best time to start, though Yesterday would have beaten it easily.” ― Kalpesh Jain
466. “I’ve learned time management, organization and I have priorities. – Tory Burch
467. “No, my entire life is planned. It’s called time management. – Sean Haye
468. “One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.” – Malcolm S. Forbes.
469. “Procrasdemon will steal the most valuable asset you have - time.”
470. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Bertrand RussellCLICK TO TWEET
471. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”
472. “Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?“
473. “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
474. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. – Shoppenhauer
475. “One must work with time and not against it.“
476. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door”
477. “We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
478. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin.
479. “Right now is always the right time.” ― Udai Yadla
480. “A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.” -Baltasar Gracian
481. “One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.”
482. I always say, don’t make plans, make options.” – Jennifer Aniston
483. “People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.” -George C. Lichtenberg
484. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel.
485. “The clock has decided to take time into its own hands.“
486. “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.“
487. “Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it.”
488. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as downtime. All you got is lifetime. Go.”
489. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.“ – Arnold H. Glasgow, time management quotes success
490. “This is the beginning of a new day.
491. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett.
492. “It’s not about the paycheck, it’s about respect, it’s about looking in the mirror and knowing that you’ve done something valuable with your day.”
493. “Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.“
494. Different Zones – Where are you operating?
495. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
496. “Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”
497. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.“ – Henry Ward Beecher
498. “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.”
499. “An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”
500. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
501. “Time is really the only capital that any human has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
502. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
503. It’s good time management.” – Michelle Williams.
504. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.“
505. “There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.”
506. “Haste in every business brings failures.”
507. “We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. – Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.“
508. Zone of fulfillment and your energy level
509. “Procrasdemon will steal the most valuable asset you have – time.” – Neeraj Agnihotri
510. “The infinite is in the finite of every instant.“
511. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare.
512. “More than a typical marketplace”: Why retail veteran Bill Gremos launched Australia’s first online homewares supercentre
513. “Don’t waste this day or any day, because you will one day regret the usefulness of this day because, you made it useless. Redeem the time and live your dream by making this day and any other day useful.” ― Ned Bryan Abakah
514. “Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.“
515. “To choose time is to save time.“ — Francis Bacon, personal time management quotes
516. “Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
517. “Time stays, we go.“
518. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.” – Timothy Ferriss
519. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee.
520. “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.” -W. Somerset Maugham
521. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield
522. “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
523. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late”
524. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
525. “Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.”
526. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
527. “If you can’t stop time, you can’t heal it. Be mindful of how you cross it.” ― Kangoma Kindembo
528. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” – Golda Meir
529. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” – Charles Richards.
530. “Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.“
531. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
532. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publius Syrus.
533. “Remember that time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
534. “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” -Scottish Proverb
535. “The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.” – Peter Drucker
536. A lesson on majors and minors
537. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want”
538. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Rodin
539. “People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
540. “One can only forget about time by making use of it.” – Charles Baudelaire
541. “The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.” – Mozart
542. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” — Thomas Sowell, acclaimed economist and author
543. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” – Golda Meir.
544. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
545. “Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most.” ― Raynor Winn
546. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” – Tony Robbins
547. “We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.” -Thomas A. Bennett
548. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -”
549. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.“
550. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”
551. “If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.“ — A.B. Zu Tavern
552. “Time is the wisest of all counselors.“
553. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.
554. “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
555. “Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.“
556. “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.”
557. “Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.” – Pitman
558. “I always say, don’t make plans, make options.” – Jennifer Aniston
559. “The trouble is you think you have time.”
560. “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
561. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin.
562. Avoiding the dimension of escape. (1/4)
563. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.“
564. “Time flies and never falls down.” ― Tamerlan Kuzgov
565. “Procrastination is the thief of time.“
566. “Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.”
567. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
568. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
569. “A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.“
570. Good time management is about fulfillment
571. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. -Napoleon Hill
572. “The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.” ― Stephen Richards
573. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.“
574. “We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.“
575. “There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.”
576. “The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.” -Leo Kennedy
577. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” -Michael Altshuler
578. “Three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear.”
579. “If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”