Time Management Quotes
Compiled by Shyama Shankar
www.managementguru.net

“The essence of self-discipline is to do the
important thing rather than the urgent thing.”
― Barry Werner
“Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.”

 “Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the
lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships
and even monetary losses incurred just because of one
nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too
late.”
― Stephen Richards,
Overcoming Procrastination

 “He who every morning plans the transactions of that
day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide
him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
― Victor Hugo

 “How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”,
“I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every
other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how
often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do
it! That should tell you just how serious your
procrastinating problem really is.”
― Stephen Richards,
Overcoming Procrastination

 “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to
save.”
― Yale Richmond,
Understanding the Americans: A Handbook for V

 “To have more peace, as well as more time, start by
letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated.
Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set
out to use the time that is there for its true and best
purpose – as the space within which you can live your life
to the fullest.”
― Michelle Passoff

 “Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the
world, but a means to experience the richness of all that
is.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders

 “Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading
James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of
the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic
career.”
― Stefanie Weisman,
The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Te

 “Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young
and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and
7 days in a week.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders,
The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Ach

 “Your time is your life.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders,
The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Ach

 “It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making
enough time.”
― Rachael Bermingham

 “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the
pilot." -”
― Michael Altshuler

 “How long will you wait for the right time to come? The
right time is now and the right place is here.”
― Dada J.P. Vaswani

 “Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't
Sow Labor Into Time”
― Brenda Johnson Padgitt

 “Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste
of your life, or master your time and master your life.”
― Alan Lakein

 “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing
else.”
― Peter F. Drucker

 “Your Purpose Should Dictate How You Spend
Your Time”
― Brenda Johnson Padgitt

 “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.” –
Lucille S. Harper

 “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

 “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

 “You will never find time for anything. If you want
time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

 “Those who make the worst of their time most complain
about its shortness.” – La Bruyere

 “Nothing is ours except Time” – Geothe

 “He who gains time gains everything.” – Benjamin
Disraeli

 “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

 You delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

 “Time lost is never found again.” – Benjamin
Franklin

 “Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the
clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.” –
Sophia Bedford-Pierce

 ”Managing your time without setting priorities is like
shooting randomly and calling whatever you hit the
target.” - Peter Turla

 “Make sure you set SMART goals. They should be
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Timed” – Peter
Turla

 Living your life without a plan is like watching television
with someone else holding the remote control.” – 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

 “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.
Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a
week which we could donate to an old folks home or a
children’s hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we
plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not
thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the
foundation of the universe.” – Maya Angelo

 “I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for
hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord
Chesterfield

 “A stitch in time saves nine.” – popularized by
Benjamin Franklin in his “Poor Richard’s
Almanac,”

 “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” –
Bertrand Russell

 “There is a time in the life of every problem when it is
big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.” – Mike
Leavitt

 Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare

 Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

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

 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience
wisely.
Rodin

 Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus

 Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

 The common man is not concerned about the passage of
time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Shoppenhauer

 The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey

 Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great
people think of using it.
Author Unknown

 Determine never to be idle. No person will have
occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses
any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are
always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

 Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare

 This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but
know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not
discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

 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