2015-02-21

Time Management Quotes

  1. “Time and I against any two.“ – Baltasar Gracian
  2. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.“ – Lucille S. Harper
  3. “He that rises late must trot all day.“ – Benjamin Franklin
  4. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that is why they call it the present.“ – Kung Fu Panda
  5. “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
  6. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.“ – Leonardo Da Vinci
  7. “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.“ – Charles Dickens
  8. “Time is the rider that breaks youth.“ – George Herbert
  9. “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early“. – Groucho Marx
  10. “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.“ – Daniel J. Boorstin 
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  • “Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.“ – Faith Baldwin
  • “Seasons change.“ – Unknown
  • “Time cuts down all, both great and small.“ – Unknown
  • “One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.“ – Norman Douglas
  • “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.“ – George Bernard Shaw
  • “Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled… Time, the avenger! “- Lord Byron 

  • “To do two things at once is to do neither.“ – Publius Syrus
  • “People always make time to do the things they really want to do.“ – Anonymous
  • “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." – Samuel Johnson
  • “Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?“ – Robert Townsend
  • “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). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.“ – Unknown
  • “We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.“ – Charles E. Hummel
  • “One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.“ – Nido Qubein
  • “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.“ – Leo Buscaglia
  • “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.“ – Victor Hugo
  • “Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?“ – Alan Lakein
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.“ – Richard Ben Sapir
  • It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?“ – Henry David Thoreau
  • “In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.“ – Alan Lakein


  • “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.“ – Rabindranath Tagore
  • “One must learn a different sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.“ – Sister Mary Paul
  • “You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.“ – Doc Childre and Howard Martin
  • “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  • “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “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.“ – James M. Barrie
  • “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.“ – Robert Updefraff
  • “The infinite is in the finite of every instant.“ – Unknown
  • “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.“ – William Faulkner
  • “A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.“ – John B. Priestly
  • “Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.“ – Bruce Lee
  • “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.“ -  Bruce Lee
  • “The timeless moment. — The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.“ – Bruce Lee 
  • “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.“ – Henry Ward Beecher
  • “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.“ – Bruce Lee
  • “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.“ – Jim Rohn
  • “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
  • “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” – Jack Bergman
  • “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.“ – Lord Chesterfield
  • “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
  • “What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?“ – Ted W. Engstrom
  • “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.“ – Ted W. Engstrom
  • “I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.“ – Ian Fleming
  • “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.“ – Anthony J. D’Angelo
  • “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.“ – Bruce Lee
  • “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.“ – Bruce Lee
  • “If you haven’t got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?“ – Jeffery J. Mayer
  • “People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.“ – George C. Lichtenberg
  • “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.“ – Samuel Levenson
  • “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.“ – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • “We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.“ – Thomas A. Bennett


  • “Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.” – Pitman
  • “Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.“ – Charles De Montesquiu
  • “The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.“ – Franklin Field
  • “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.“ – Robert J. Mckain
  • “One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.“ – Malcolm S. Forbes
  • “A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.“ – Baltasar Gracian
  • “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.“ – Arthur Shoppenhauer
  • “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.“ -  Arnold H. Glasgow
  • “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.“ – Denis Waitley
  • “Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.“ – Unknown
  • “Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.“ – Unknown
  • “Monday is the key day of the week.“ – Proverb
  • “Why kill time when one can employ it.“ – Proverb






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