I was not born an artist of time management. Life circumstances “forced” me to develop these skills. I have to admit though, that it brought me a lot of certainty and even success.
Since I am a fan of quotes, I have been collecting ones about time management. They have helped me over the years to develop an appreciation for time and to make a good use of it.
We all have the same 24 hours each day. Some of us make good use of them and others abuse them.
– Ronit Baras
I choose to make good use of my time. I hope the quotes below will inspire you to master your time as well.
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
Those who make the worst of their time most complain about its shortness.
– La Bruyere
Time lost is never found again.
– Benjamin Franklin
Managing your time without setting priorities is like shooting randomly and calling whatever you hit the target.
– Peter Turla
Nothing is ours except Time.
– Geothe
Time is money.
– Benjamin Franklin
You delay, but time will not.
– Benjamin Franklin
Managing multiple projects is like being the parent of a large family that you have to feed. Each aspect of your job can be like another child that needs nurturing. You can’t neglect any one of the ‘children’ and expect to have a healthy family.
– Peter Turla
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
– Peter F. Drucker
Time in its aging course teaches all things.
– Aeschylus
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
– English Proverb
It’s better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly.
– Peter Turla
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
– Chinese Proverb
I recommend you take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
– Earl of Chesterfield
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
– Thomas Fuller
Spare moments are the gold dust of time.
– Bishop Hail
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business-or almost anywhere else for that matter.
– Lee Iacocca
Take time: much may be gained by patience.
– Latin Proverb
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
– Charles Buxton
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
– Thomas Fuller
Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.
– Sir Matthew Hale
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
– Unknown
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.
– Napoleon Hill
Never leave ’till tomorrow that which you can do today.
– Benjamin Franklin
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
– William Shakespeare
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
-Shoppenhauer
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
– William Penn
Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
– Alan Lakein
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
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
– Author Unknown
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
– Stephen R. Covey
Never let yesterday use up today.
– Richard H. Nelson
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
Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
– Sara Paddison
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
– Leonardo Da Vinci
All great achievements require time.
– Maya Angelou
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
– Bertrand Russell
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
– Winston Churchill
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
– Sydney J. Harris
Time stays, we go.
– H. L. Mencken
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
– Albert Einstein
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
– James Cash Penney
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
– Will Rogers
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
– Sir Matthew Hale
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
– Peter F. Drucker
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
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
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift.
– Maya Angelou
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
– Michael Altshuler
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
– Cyril Northcote Parkinson
All the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
– Chinese Proverb
Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.
– Roman poet Ovid
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
– Jim Rohn
Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten cent decision.
– Peter Turla
You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
– Jim Rohn
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
– Delmore Schwartz
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
– Alfred A. Montapert
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
– William Shakespeare
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
– Pericles
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
– Baltasar Gracian
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
– Rodin
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
– Aeschylus
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
– Author Unknown
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
– Thomas Edison
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
You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
– Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
– Samuel Smiles
Lost time is never found again.
– Proverb
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
– Leo Kennedy
Your greatest resource is your time.
– Brian Tracy
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
– Baltasar Gracian
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
– Eva Young
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
– Karen Lamb
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
– Seneca
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
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
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
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time”.
– Franklin Field
Live each day as if it be your last.
– Marcus Aurelius, 140 AD
A stitch in time saves nine.
– popularized by Benjamin Franklin in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
Focused action beats brilliance.
– Mark Sanborn
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.
– Mike Leavitt
Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the “ready – aim – aim – aim – aim” syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
– T. Boone Pickens
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
– St Francis of Assisi
Enjoy your time!
Ronit
