Time Management Quotes
Top 25 Time Management
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-horace.jpg)
Seize the day.
- Horace (65-8 BC), Roman poet, pictured right.
![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-beethoven.jpg)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827),
pictured right, the German composer, says something similar:
I will seize fate by the throat
No 2![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-montaigne.jpg)
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–92),
French writer, pictured right.
Three other great people agree:
![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-thoreau.jpg)
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts,
-Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), pictured right , American philosopher.
![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-rousseau.jpg)
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest
experiences.
- Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (1712-78), pictured right, Swiss philosopher.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-kennedy-jf.jpg)
We must use time as a tool not as a couch
-John F. Kennedy (1917–63), American
president, pictured right.
No 3![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-michelangelo.jpg)
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
-Michelangelo (1475-1564) Italian painter,
sculptor, architect and poet, pictured right.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
Two good reasons for this are given by Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), pictured right,
the American politician and philosopher:
Time is money.
Do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
No 4![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-parkinson.jpg)
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93), English writer, pictured right (known as Parkinson's
Law)
No 5![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-young.jpg)
Procrastination is the thief of time
- Edward Young (1681–1765), English writer, pictured right.
Five other quotes give similar advice:
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time,
(Mr Micawber in the 1850 novel David
Copperfield)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), pictured
right, English novelist
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today,
- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-90) , pictured right, American politician and philosopher.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-eleanor.jpg)
We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962),
pictured right, American human rights campaigner.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-huxley.jpg)
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today,
(from the 1932 novel Brave New
World)
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), pictured right, English writer.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-wollstonecraft.jpg)
The beginning is always today.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797), pictured right, English pioneer of women’s rights.
No 6![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-marcus-aurelius.jpg)
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180),
pictured right, Roman emperor and philosopher, pictured right.
No 7![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-socrates.jpg)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates (470-399 BC), Greek
philosopher, pictured right.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-edison.jpg)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), pictured
right, the American inventor, also comments:
Being busy does not always mean real work.
No 8![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
They stumble that run fast.
(Friar Laurence in Romeo and
Juliet)
- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 9![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-scott-peck.jpg)
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 (1936-2005),
pictured right, American psychiatrist
No 10![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-chesterfield.jpg)
I recommend to you to take care of minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694–1773), English writer and politician, pictured right.
No 11![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
Life well spent is long.
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, Italian
painter and designer, pictured right.
No 12![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotesrogerswill.jpg)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to
save.
- Will Rogers (1879–1935), pictured right, American actor and humorist
No 13![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light,
(from the 1594 poemThe Rape of Lucrece)
- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 14![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-tolkien.jpg)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us,
(Gandalf in The Lord of the
Rings)
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), pictured right, English writer.
No 15
Please excuse Sandra being late. She was waiting for the bus at twenty to nine but came back to use the toilet
and missed it.
(a parent's note to a teacher)
- Anonymous (original author unknown).
No 16![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-austen.jpg)
A man who has nothing to do with his time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others,
(Marianne in the 1811 novel Sense and
Sensibility)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), pictured right,
English writer.
No 17![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-pound-ezra.jpg)
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
(from the 1926 poem And the Days Are Not Full Enough)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972), pictured right above, American poet.
No 18![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-milton.jpg)
Time the subtle thief of youth.
(from the 1631 poem Sonnet 7)
- John Milton (1608–74), English poet, pictured right (written on his 23rd birthday).
No 19![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-pericles.jpg)
Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time.
- Pericles (c495-429 BC), leader of ancient Greece,
pictured right.
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
No 20
In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), pictured right, American president
![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-darwin.jpg)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882),
English naturalist, pictured right, agrees:
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
No 21![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotesshirl.jpg)
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
- Shirley Conran (1932- ), pictured right, in Superwoman (1975)
No 22![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-bonhoeffer.jpg)
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavour,
enjoyment and suffering.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-45), pictured right, German minister and theologian.
No 23![Time Management Quotes Time Management Quotes](images/quotes-pythagorus.jpg)
The best and greatest winning is a true friend; and the greatest loss is the loss of time.
- Pythagorus (c.570-495 BC), pictured right, Greek
philosopher and mathematician
No 24![Time Management Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-thoreau.jpg)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), pictured right, American philosopher.
No 25![Teams and Committees Quotes Teams and Committees Quotes](images/quotes-erikson.jpg)
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
- Erik Erikson
(1902-94), pictured right, German-born American psychologist.
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