TIME AND TIME MANAGEMENT QUOTES TO INSPIRE

Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life
of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be!

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. ~ Source Unknown ~

To choose time is to save time.~ Francis Bacon ~

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. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. ~ Jack Bergman

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Hector Louis Berlioz ~

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Bixton

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 ~

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ Jorge Luis Borges ~

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ~ John Mason Brown ~

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 ~

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ~ Lord Chesterfield

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. ~ Winston Churchill ~

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system. ~ Stephen R. Covey ~

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ~ Charles Dickens ~

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ~ Laertius Diogenes ~

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~ Austin Dobson ~

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else. ~ Peter F. Drucker ~

The best way to fill time is to waste it. ~ Marguerite Duras ~

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. ~ Henry Van Dyke

The surest poison is time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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 ~

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. ~Euripides~

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. ~Robert Frost

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ~ Merrick Furst

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ~ George Robert Gissing ~

All time management begins with planning. ~ Tom Greening ~

Time is the rider that breaks youth. ~ George Herbert ~

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 ~

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 ~

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~

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 = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ~ Alan Lakein ~

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
~ Ivy Lee ~

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

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 ~

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us. ~ John Longden ~

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 ~

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ~ Horace Mann ~

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. ~ Wieder Marcia ~

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?              ~ Jeffery J. Mayer ~

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
~ Charles De Montesquieu ~

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. ~ Mike Murdock ~

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. ~ Ovid ~

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. ~ Octavio Paz ~

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind. ~ Pitman ~

Time is the wisest of all counselors. ~ Plutarch ~

Lost time is never found again. ~ Proverb ~

It is later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb ~

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. ~ English Proverb ~

Life is half spent before one knows what it is. ~ French Proverb ~

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverb ~

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~ Bonnie Prudden ~

Time is the fairest and toughest judge. ~ Edgar Quinet ~

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ~ Jane Bryant Quinn ~

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.                 ~ John Randolph ~

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion. ~ Boardroom Reports ~

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 ~

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

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. ~ Bertrand Russell ~

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 ~

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. ~ Richard Ben Sapir ~

Time is that in which all things pass away. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz

Time discovered truth. ~ Seneca ~

Wasted time means wasted lives. ~ R. Shannon ~

When the time is right, you just got to do it. ~ Jack Simplot ~

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 ~

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose. ~ Jim Steinman ~

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 ~

A day may sink or save a realm. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson ~

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.                   ~ Brian Tracy ~

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen. ~ Henry Twells ~

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must.  ~ Source Unknown ~

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself. ~ Source Unknown ~

Time cuts down all, both great and small. ~ Source Unknown ~

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ~ Source Unknown ~

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 Updegraff ~

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. ~ Joseph Addison ~

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~ Louis Agassiz ~

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ~ John Arthorne ~

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it. ~ Christine Warren ~

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~ Tennessee Williams ~

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~ Frank Zappa ~