Time Management Quotes

248 quotes by 182 authors

The best way to fill time is to waste it. — Marguerite Duras
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. — Tim Ferriss
Know how to live the time that is given you. — Dario Fo
By the time we've made it, we've had it. — Malcolm Forbes
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. — Thomas Hardy
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. — Ben Hecht
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. — Adam Hochschild
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — 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 way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. — Benjamin Jowett
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. — Jeffrey Kluger
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. — Bruce Lee
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Abraham Lincoln
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use… — Jack London
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. — Horace Mann

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