Quotes on Time Management

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.