Time Management Quotes

Mr..........., Please be on Time , it's the best teacher ; I shall rather request to check your priorities as small things matter ,you may do only a few things keeping your focus on present as lost time is gone forever ;speaks itself the importance of time instead of procrastinating or excusing or accusing someone/thing unknown , you must be in control because it irritates & hurts somewhere deep in high summers when mercury doesn't listen to me , electricity is lost in darkness , water level searches new bottom , rupee falls, petrol price marches new high in May & you also keep nagging ,delaying ......wasting phone calls... you listen but ... so late .....when the breath brings last... a few of oxygen .....i don't have time machine.....please.....

Be on time

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

Time is the best teacher

·   Time is the wisest counsellor 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

·   Histories make men wise.-Francis Bacon

·   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

·   Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.-Alan Lakein

·   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

·   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.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

·   Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.-Benjamin Franklin

·    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

Check your priorities

·   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

·   It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?-Henry David Thoreau

Small things matter

·   Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.-Lord Chesterfield

·   You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.-Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Do only a few things

·   To do two things at once is to do neither. -Publius Syrus

·   One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.-Chinese Proverb

Focus on the present

·    Never let yesterday use up today.-Richard H. Nelson

·    I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.-W. Somerset Maugham

·   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

·   Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what real.-Sara Paddison

·    The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.-Carl Sandburg

·    You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

·   Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.-Art Buchwald

·   This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important, because
I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever,
leaving in its place something
that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss;
good not evil; success not failure;
in order that I shall not regret
the price I paid for it.
Lost time gone forever

·   He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.-Thomas Fuller

·   He who know 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

·    Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefullyOne thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.-Author Unknown

·   Lost time is never found again.-Proverb

The importance of time

·    All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.-Baltasar Gracian

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 Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.-Theophrastus

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Time is money.-Benjamin Franklin

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Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.-John Shebbeare

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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

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Your greatest resource is your time.-Brian Tracy

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

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

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

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 Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.-Thomas Edison

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 Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.-Peter F. Drucker

Don’t procrastinate

·   What may be done at any time will be done at no time.-Scottish Proverb

·   A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times -Baltasar Gracian

·   One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.-Malcolm S. Forbes

·   To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.-Eva Young

·    A year from now you will wish you had started today.-Karen Lamb

·    The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.-Leo Kennedy

·   While we are postponing, life speeds by.-Seneca

·   You may delay, but time will not.-Benjamin Franklin

·    Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.-Benjamin Franklin

Don’t excuse, you are in control

·   You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.-Charles Bruxton

·   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, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.-H. Jackson Brown

·    The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.-Michael Altshuler

·    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

·   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

·  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

·   Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.-Jean De La Bruyere

·   The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”-Franklin Field