Time Management Quotes

Time is, irrefutably, the most valuable intangible commodity that we are all blessed with. If we lose it, we can never catch hold of it again. You can win back money, you can win back somebody’s heart and with advanced science, you can even win back a debilitating organ. However, you can never win back your precious time. The concept of a time machine is only a concept. The ways you choose to while away your time defines your future and as you utilize your time, your destiny is being written in invisible ink. You may often wonder - How is it practically possible to complete all your deadlines and essential tasks within the give twenty-four hour time frame of the day? To your pleasant surprise, you will soon discover the art of time management and revel in the spare time that ensues. Yes, learn to divide your time to each duty and task you regard important. Given below is a list of time management quotes. Some of them inspire to better manage your time, while others simply stress on the value of time.

Time Management Quotations

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. - Michael Altshuler
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. - Henry Ward Beecher
Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. - Alan Lakein
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
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. -Henry Ford
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. -Herbert Spencer
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
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill
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
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. - James Taylor
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Albert Einstein
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. - Dante
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
To do two things at once is to do neither. -Publius Syrus
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. -Anonymous
Time stays, we go. - H. L. Mencken
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. - William Shakespeare
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Rodin
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. - Shoppenhauer
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
Never let yesterday use up today. - Richard H. Nelson
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. ~ Chinese Proverb
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. -Stephen R. Covey
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
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. - Art Buchwald
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. - Thomas Fuller
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. - Anonymous
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war. - John Shebbeare
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. - Jean De La Bruyere

Hope these quotes have given you the right boost to go ahead and manage your time!

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