Time Management Quotes

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It’s surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind."

- Brittany Burgunder

"There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on."

- Leo Christopher

"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

"Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily."

- Bill Gates

"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

"Rearranging your day around when you have the most energy is one simple way to work smarter instead of just harder."

- Chris Bailey

"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

"A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done."

- Peter Turla

"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

"Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time; great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

- Seneca

"A stitch in time saves nine."

- Proverb

"Prioritize your time so that it reflects your values."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Time is the most valuable thing we have, and the one we tend to waste the most."

- Seneca

"Better three hours too soon than one minute too late."

- William Shakespeare

"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

- Dante Alighieri

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The key is not to proritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Time is Money"

- bluewolf

"Time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else in life depends."

- Brian Tracy

"Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

- Alan Lakein

"He who lets time pass by without action will live to regret it."

"Your time is precious. Don’t waste it on unproductive activities. Make every Saturday count."

- Anonymous