Time Management Quotes with Meaning
I wanted to have a look at time management quotes, so I did. Please find below a collection of the 24 most meaningful time management quotes that I stumbled upon. Comments in blue.
Nature of Time
Time is an interesting element, isn't it? It is impossible to control, and most of us forget to value it enough. Take a look at the following time management quotes:
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
Peter F. Drucker
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
William Frederick Book
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
Look at Steve Jobs here below – that is surprisingly deep! Way to go Steve.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
Time Management Quotes: Procrastination
No better time to start than now… at lease according to these time management quotes:
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
William Shakespeare
Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
Which of these time management quotes are your favourite?
This is a controversial one:
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
Didn't we also say "what is worth doing, is worth doing well"? I guess that the point above is just that don't be too much of a perfectionist. Please also note the word "often"; it is not "always".
Mindfulness / Present Moment Awareness
There is no other moment than now (take a look at our article about mindfulness stress reduction):
The moment has no time.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Elanor Roosevelt
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
Unknown
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.
Richard Carlson, PH.D
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
Remember to Enjoy Your Time
Don't forget to have some fun too, we are reminded by the following time management quotes:
The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Japanese proverb
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.
T. S. Elliot
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
Time Management Quotes: Humorous
A few funny time management quotes:
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes
I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Unknown
I hope you enjoyed some of these time management quotes above! If you have some favourite time management quotes of your own, feel free to email them to me!
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