50 Time Management Quotes to Live By

“Take care of the minutes and the how’s will take care of themselves.” -Lord Chesterfield

“Lost time is never found again.” -Benjamin Franklin

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

“Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.” -Brian Tracy

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

“Time management is life management.” -Robin Sharma

“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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“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn

“Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” -African Proverb

“We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.” -Richard G. Scott

“You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” -Charles Buxton

“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

“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

“Never leave ’til tomorrow which you can do today.” -Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” -Tony Robbins

“Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.” -Leo Buscaglia

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” -Victor Hugo

“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

“The idea is to make decisions and act on them — to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.” -Karen Kakascik

“One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time” -Anonymous

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

“To choose time is to save time.” -Francis Bacon

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

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” -Golda Meir

“He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.” -John Arthorne

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

“One must learn a different sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.” -Sister Mary Paul

“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

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” -Proverb

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” -Bruce Lee

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

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

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

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

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” -Napoleon Hill

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.” -Henry Ward Beecher

“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” -Bruce Lee

“One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.” -P. W. Litchfield

“So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?” -Ted W. Engstrom

“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo

“People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.” -George C. Lichtenberg

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.” -Thomas A. Bennett

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” -Stephen Covey

“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” -Mike Murdock

Logan Derrick

Logan Derrick is a full-time business writer and content marketing strategist. For years, he has worked closely with several project management professionals, learning from them and increasing his own knowledge of the industry. Having held multiple management positions in fields ranging from customer service to marketing, Logan has found a passion for helping others learn about project management, marketing, and the powerful tools available to professionals today.