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Time Management Quotes

49 Total

You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

– Alvin Toffler

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Why kill time when you can make it work for you.

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?

– John Clarke

When you discover some product that you think you have to have, put it on a 30 day wait list. At the end of 30 days, ask yourself “Do I still need it?” More often than not, we can’t remember why we were so excited in the first place.

– Elaine St. James

What is the best use I can make of my TIME right now?

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and yet we act as though there would be no end to them.

Time waits for no one and we are all given the same amount. Spend it with those you care for in a setting you love. Treasure every moment.

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.

– Peter F. Drucker

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

TIME – Use It Or Lose It. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we’re trying to decide what to do with it.

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

– Bill Watterson

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

– Jules Renard

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

– Franklin P. Jones

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

– Leo Kennedy

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours. Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sundial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions!

– Titus Maccius Plautus

The Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chaplin. Good song for stressing the need to take time with your children.

The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley.

– Robert Burns

Stuff doesn’t just cost money. It also takes up time. And what does everyone say they really want? More time!

– Elaine St. James

Simple gardening principle: Water what you want to grow. Assess your life. Are you really watering the important things? Some people plant seeds then water elsewhere. It’s not just “sowing.” You must also water what you sow if you truly want to reap the fruitage.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

– Dale Carnegie

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

– Evelyn Waugh

Procrastination is like a credit card; it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.

– Christopher Parker

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

– Vincent T. Foss

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

– Merrill Douglass

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

– Merrill Douglass

Learn to pause…or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

It is always amazing how many of the things we do will never be missed. And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

– Peter F. Drucker