TIME MANAGEMENT QUOTES (65)
1. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. Baltasar Gracian
2. Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk. Richard Koch
3. Do we invest countless hours perfecting our performce in jobs we don't want to do? Would our time be better spent in pursuit of more purposeful and fulfilling careers? Brian Tracy
4. 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
5. 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, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown
6. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
7. I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult. E. B. White
8. I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir
9. I think the world today is upside-down. It is suffering so much because there is so little love in the home and in family life. We have no time for our children. We have no time for each other. There is no time to enjoy each other, and the lack of love causes so much suffering and unhappiness in the world. Mother Teresa
10. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze that it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permenent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
11. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
12. If you can do something now, do it now. If it can’t be done now, decide A) its not going to get done, or B) when it will get done.
13. If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. Henry Kissenger
14. If you give the laziest man the hardest job he will work the hardest to find the easiest way to do it.
15. I'm definitely going to take a course in time management ... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. Louis Borne
16. 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
17. It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. Earl Chesterfield
18. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. Howard Ruff
19. It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. George Eliot.
20. It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau
21. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson
22. 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
23. Misspending one's time is a kind of self-homicide. George Savile, Marquess de Halifax
24. My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him. Charles Dickens
25. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain
26. Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. Georgia O Keefe
27. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
28. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
29. 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
30. One of these days is none of these days. English proverb
31. Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young
32. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genious contracts itself to a very few hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Nicholas Chamfort
34. The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. W. Edwards Deming
35. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. Michael Althsuler
36. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
37. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Steven Wright
38. The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. Stephen Covey
39. The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied. Richard Koch
40. The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words; "I did not have time. Franklin Field
41. The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time” Robert Kiyosaki, Author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
42. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. J. F. Kennedy
43. There is no good time. There is only time.
44. Things, which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
45. This loving person is a person who abhors waste--waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste? As if we were going to live forever. Leo Buscaglia
46. Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Jean De La Bruyere
47. Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life”. Alan Lakein
48. Time flies whether you're having fun or not.
49. Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. John Randolph
50. Time is money. Ben Franklin
51. Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it. Jim Rohn
52. Time is the coin of your life. Only you should determine how it should be spent. Be careful lest you let some one else spend it for you. Carl Sandberg
53. Time is the element we work with to create events.
54. Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you. John Dryden
55. Time management is really a misnomer. The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen Covey
56. To get your priorities straight, imagine that you only have six months to live. What would you do with your time? Dr. R. J. Allen
57. 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
58. We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs ... Aristotle
59. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. Lavater
60. Yesterday's the past. Tomorrow's the future. But today is a gift. Thats why it's called the present. Family Circus, Bill Keane
61. You can do just about anything you want to do, if you spend just 15 minutes a day at it! Charlotte Hale Allen
62. You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke
63. You may delay, but time will not. Ben Franklin
64. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Bixton
65. Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy
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