TIME MANAGEMENT QUOTES AND SAYINGS
Here are some of my favorite time management
sayings and quotations.
Collected by Peter "The Time Man" Turla
www.TimeMan.com
"Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician." - Lucille S. Harper
"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
"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
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make
it." - Charles Buxton
"Those who make the worst of their time most complain about its
shortness." - La Bruyere
"Nothing is ours except Time" - Geothe
"He who gains time gains everything." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Time is money." - Benjamin Franklin
"You delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin
"Time lost is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
"Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not
the same as watching the sun rise." - Sophia Bedford-Pierce
"Living your life without a plan is like watching television with
someone else holding the remote control." - Peter Turla
"Managing multiple projects is like being the parent of a large family
that you have to feed. Each aspect of your job can be like another child
that needs nurturing. You can't neglect any one of the 'children' and
expect to have a healthy family." - Peter Turla
"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." - Peter F. Drucker
"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
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy
every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never
put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Lord Chesterfield
"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence --
neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an
imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few
hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's
hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water
pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is
upholding the foundation of the universe." - Maya Angelou
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Altshuler
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - C.
Northcote Parkinson
"If it
weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done." -
Michael S. Traylor
"All the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."- Chinese Proverb
"You
can't catch one hog when you're chasing two." - Moe Schaffer
"Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of
intellect tries to use it." - Schopenhauer
"Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop."- Roman poet Ovid
"Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it." - Alexander Bloch, American conductor
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The most
important question to ask on the job is not "What am I getting?
"The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"- Jim Rohn
"We can
no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend
minor time on major things." - Jim Rohn
"The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't." - Jim Rohn
"You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall."- Jim Rohn
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."- Will Rogers
"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal, Provincial Letters XVI
"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month." - Wernher von Braun
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." - Emile Henry Gauvreay
"If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau
"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." - Alfred A. Montapert
“I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.” - Lord Chesterfield
"I am only one, but still I am
one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not
refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which
carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but
I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire” -
Jorge Luis Borges
"It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep." - Tibetan saying
"Live each day as if it be your last." - Marcus Aurelius, 140 AD
"Never leave till tomorrow that
which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin
"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do
nothing." - Cicero
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
"In an
organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence."-
Laurence Peter
"Never fight with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it!" -
General Abrahm's Pig Law
“Half our life is spent trying to
find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to
save.” - Will Rogers
"Focused action beats brilliance" - Mark Sanborn
"There is a time in the life of every problem when it
is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve." - Mike Leavitt
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a
good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready - aim - aim -
aim - aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire. " - T. Boone Pickens
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible." - St Francis of Assisi
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Louis Berlioz
"We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes." - Zig Ziglar
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