Time Management Quotes

Time Management

Time Management Quotes

Everybody knows the importance and significance of time, but very few seem to be able to utilize it to the fullest to gain optimal benefits. Time is cruel and always avenges one who trifles. Therefore, time and again, great minds both of the present and the yore have drawn human race out of slumber and pinpointed how we must set ourselves in harmony against the fleeting time. Though abstract, there is no one who doesn’t feel the strangling grip of time around his or her throat. Sir Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants”. Likewise, we must also ride the shoulders of the giants and see as far as we can and draw as much wisdom from the well already dug by them as we can. Here are some of the finest quotes, which outline the importance of time and its management for our self-prosperity. Read this article to learn what all those masters or the great minds had to say about time and its management and drink as much as you can from the well of their great wisdom.

 Quotes On Time Management

    • “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
    • “Living your life without a plan is like watching television with someone else holding the remote control.” – Peter Turla
    • “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Althsuler
    • “The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.” – Sir Matthew Hale
    • “To comprehend a man’s life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.” -John Hall Gladstone
    • “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield
    • “Time is the scarcest resource; and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.” – Peter F. Drucker
    • “Why do people complain that there’s no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.” – David Allen
    • “The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals and activities – what we do with and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction – what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass– when what we do doesn’t contribute to what is most important in our lives.” – Stephen Covey
    • “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
    • “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
    • “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr
    • “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Bruxton
    • “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” – Samuel Smiles
    • “A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.” – William Frederick Book
    • “All time management begins with planning.” – Tom Greening
    • “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford
    • “Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.” – Josh Billings
    • “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford Quotes
    • Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
    • “Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. “ – Ted W. Engstrom
    • “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!” – Tony Robbins

The above written quotes are some of the wisest remarks outlining the importance of time and its management to all of us. All of us have 24 hours in a day. However, most of us struggle to get our ends meet and complain of its insufficiency while there are some who with the same amount of time have created wonders and elevated themselves to immortality. How? The key lies in time management. Read the above written quotes one by one and learn what these great masters say about the significance of time and its management.