Everything that can be said about time management has been said and covered in the following time management quotes. In a way, they are motivational quotes by famous people like Benjamin Franklin, Brian Tracy, Seneca, William Shakespeare, Bruce Lee, Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Edison and other renowned authors.
Time management quotes
1. Remember that time is money. – Benjamin Franklin
2. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
3. You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
4. So little time and so little to do. – Anonymous
5. Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles
6. Your greatest resource is your time. – Brian Tracy
7. Time management is really key for me. – Marc Guggenheim
8. There’s time enough but none to spare. – Anonymous
9. While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Seneca
10. Time management is the mantra of my life. – Vir Das
11. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. – Anonymous
12. To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publius Syrus
13. Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Anonymous
14. We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. – Anonymous
15. Time is a great healer but a poor beautician. – Anonymous
16. A minute’s success pays the failure of years. – Anonymous
17. Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly. – Anonymous
18. Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week. – Anonymous
19. Time is the longest distance between two places. – Anonymous
20. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Anonymous
21. Time is what we want most, but what we spend worst. – William Penn
22. A year from now you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
23. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. – Leo Kennedy
24. There’s never enough time, unless you’re serving it. – Anonymous
25. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey
26. Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. – Peter F. Drucker
27. Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. – William Shakespeare
28. One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. – Anonymous
29. Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. – Anonymous
30. Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear! – Anonymous
31. Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time. – Anonymous
32. Being rich is having money, being wealthy is having time. – Anonymous
33. Do today what must be done. Your tomorrow may never come. – Anonymous
34. Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. – Jim Loehr
35. If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. – Rita Mae Brown
36. You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. – Doc Childre and Howard Martin
37. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin
38. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler
39. Entrepreneur, make today count but don’t let the day count you. – Anonymous
40. The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. – Carl Sandburg
41. To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young
42. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. – Anonymous
43. I can’t manage time but I can control my 24 hours to be valuable. – Anonymous
44. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Anonymous
45. The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. – Chris Guillebeau
46. If we take care of moments, the years will take care of themselves. – Maria Edgeworth
47. Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
48. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be looking for it all day. – Anonymous
49. Even if your watch is full of diamonds, the hour is still 60 minutes. – Anonymous
50. This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson
51. You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future. – Ashley Ormon
52. It’s better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly. – Peter Turla
53. The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it. – Anonymous
54. He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. – Thomas Fuller
55. If you want to be recorded as a valuer of life, then first value time. – Anonymous
56. Don’t get sidetracked stomping on ants when you have elephants to feed. – Anonymous
57. Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz
58. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. – Anonymous
59. Stop wasting your time, and start doing something with the time you have. – Anonymous
60. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it. – Anonymous
61. If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time. – Elbert Hubbard
62. This time like all times, is a very good one if we know what do to with it. – Anonymous
63. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee
64. You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. – Charles Bruxton
65. All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. – Baltasar Gracian
66. If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? – John Wooden
67. Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. – Anonymous
68. A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
69. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. – John Randolph
71. I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. – W. Somerset Maugham
72. Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. – Art Buchwald
73. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. – Anonymous
74. If you want to have the time of your life. Change how you use the time in your life. – Anonymous
75. It’s not worth completing that which shouldn’t have been started in the first place. – Anonymous
76. It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
77. It’s not the time for you to dream, it is the time for you to accomplish the mission! – Anonymous
78. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. – Anonymous
79. Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. – Jean De La Bruyere
80. I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. – Philip Stanhope
81. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 wasted 30 years of his life. – Anonymous
82. Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully. – Anonymous
83. Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time. – Anonymous
84. If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
85. Time is the only commodity that is irreplaceable; invest it, share it, spend it… but never waste it. – Anonymous
86. Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison
87. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. – Baltasar Gracian
88. It’s not how many things you start that make you successful. It’s how many worthwhile things you finish. – Anonymous
89. Time is undoubtedly one of your greatest tools for success. You truly can’t afford not to use it wisely. – Anonymous
90. Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. – Alan Lakein
91. The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: ‘I did not have time.’ – Franklin Field
92. When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them. – Anonymous
93. Managing your time without setting priorities is like shooting randomly and calling whatever you hit the target. – Anonymous
94. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – Anonymous
95. Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. – Sara Paddison
96. 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
97. Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck
98. Time doesn’t need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use is the only question. – Anonymous
99. Life is not lost by dying, life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small unscaring ways. – Anonymous
100. If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it. – Assegid Habtewold