Time Management Quotes

We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Postponement: The father of failure.

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 may be done if we are always doing.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

Time-wasting is one of the worst things we have in Portugal.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Time is money, be a better you.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

The biggest thing I have to keep in mind is balance. I have certain times and days that I dedicate to certain responsibilities. It is very important to not become unbalanced in an area, spending too much time in one area and not another.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

Method will teach you to win time.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.