Time Management Quotes To Make The Most Of Life

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These are our favorite quotes to help motivate you to maximize your 24 hours.

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

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

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

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4. “You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” ― Ashley Ormon

5. “Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. – Jim Loehr

6. “No, my entire life is planned. It’s called time management. – Sean Haye

7. “I’ve learned time management, organization and I have priorities. – Tory Burch

8. “Time management is the mantra of my life.” – Vir Das

9. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

10. “If you want to have a high-quality personal life, plan a high-quality personal life.” – Peter Turla

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11. “Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.” – Unknown

12. “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 do not let other people spend it for you.” ― Carl Sandburg

13. “If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

14. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ― Michael Altshuler

15. “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

16. “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

17. “The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.” ― Stephen Richards

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18. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” ― Tony Morgan

19. “There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.” ― Vanna Bonta, Shades Of The World

20. 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

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21. “Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. – John C. Maxwell

22. “I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management. – Michelle Williams

23. “You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life. – Patch Adams

24. “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

25. “People hurry so they can get to places faster, where they’d rather not be, so they can have more time to do things they’d rather not be doing.” – Peter Turla

26. “It’s not how many things you start that make you successful. It’s how many worthwhile things you finish.” – Peter Turla

27. “This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

28. “It’s not worth completing that which shouldn’t have been started in the first place.” – Peter Turla

29. “The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. – Hugh Jackman

30. “Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life. – Kajol

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31. “Figuring out what we need to do is not the challenge. The challenge is figuring out when to do it.” – Peter Turla

32. Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” – Winston Churchill

33. Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.” – Donald Rumsfeld

34. A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

35. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight Eisenhower

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36. I always say, don’t make plans, make options.” – Jennifer Aniston

37. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra

38. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” – Henry David Thoreau

39. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein

40. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

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41. “Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. – William Shakespeare

42. “Time is the wisest counselor of all. – Pericles

43. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

44. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin

45. “Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus

46. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn

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

48. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. – Alan Lakein

49. “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

50. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey

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51. “Where your attention goes, your time goes.” – Idowu Koyenikan

52. “Time management is about life management.” – Idowu Koyenikan

53. “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

54. “Understand one thing – the time is the only actual currency you have. Even though it might be daunting for some people, it’s the ultimate truth.” – Neeraj Agnihotri

55. “Procrasdemon will steal the most valuable asset you have – time.” – Neeraj Agnihotri

56. “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

57. “Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

58. “Time is non-renewable.” – Neeraj Agnihotri

59. “Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.” – Dee Dee Artner

60. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Yale Richmond

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61. “One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.” ― Brian Tracy

62. “Time is not money. Time is the space where money is earned and measured. Wealth minded people aim to maximize how much value they create and minimize the time it takes to create that value.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

63. “This morning I stopped to watch the geese fly, even though I didn’t have the time to do so. And I realized that not having the time to do something might be the very reason why I need to do it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

64. “Quit saying you don’t have the time, and simply admit it’s not a priority.” ― J.S. Felts

65. “Time flies and never falls down.” ― Tamerlan Kuzgov

66. “Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most.” ― Raynor Winn

67. “Don’t waste this day or any day, because you will one day regret the usefulness of this day because, you made it useless. Redeem the time and live your dream by making this day and any other day useful.” ― Ned Bryan Abakah

68. “You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff—your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed.” ― Austin Kleon

69. “A person’s actions will ALWAYS tell you what their priorities are. People spend their time, money, and energy on what’s important to them.” ― Germany Kent

70. “The time thieves that cause destructive stress are waiting to be uncovered. Remove these from your work week and watch your outputs per hour soar.” ― Allison Graham

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71. “All things good happen by not managing time, but prioritizing attention.” ― Richie Norton

72. “If you can’t stop time, you can’t heal it. Be mindful of how you cross it.” ― Kangoma Kindembo

73. “If you really want to achieve it. Have a deadline on it. If not, you will never complete it.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

74. “Self-fulfillment grows when you use your time effectively for yourself and for others.” ― Margo Vader

75. “Now is definitely the best time to start, though Yesterday would have beaten it easily.” ― Kalpesh Jain

76. “Right now is always the right time.” ― Udai Yadla

77. “Worry wastes time, envy wastes wealth.” ― Amit Kalantri

78. “We will never have enough time to do everything, but we will always have enough time to do the most important thing.” ― Wilbert Wynnberg

79. “it’s amazing the amount of achievements someone can accomplish by managing well the gift call 24 hours.” ― Manuel Corazzari

80. “It’s not about having the time, it’s about managing the time you already have.” ― Rob Liano

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