Time Management Quotes and Sayings

Time management is of utmost importance if you are to achieve excellence in your personal and professional life. Time is not a resource which can be saved for future use, and hence one has to make the most of it.... before it flies. The 'present' moment becomes 'history' the very next moment. It's a moment lost, which cannot be retrieved. People who keep complaining about not having time, are the ones who are bad at time management. While a wise man knows the importance of time, and thrives to make the most of every moment he gets, a fool is too lazy to do so - and instead cribs about losing valuable time.

Time Management Quotes and Sayings that Inspire

Quotes and sayings have always been regarded as important tools of motivation, and time management quotations are no exceptions. These time management sayings tend to inculcate the importance of time in such a way that you are left with no option but to make sure we make most of it. Here, we have compiled some motivational quotes about time management which stress on the importance of this concept.

"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg

"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." - Lord Chesterfield

"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking." - Sir John Lubbock

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." - David Norris

"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

"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 worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't." - Jim Rohn

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers

"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words; 'I did not have time.'" - Franklin Field

"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death." - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

"When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free." - Marcia Wieder

"No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because that's where you are." - Kazi Shams

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." - Charles Buxton

"Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect tries to use it." - Schopenhauer

"Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin

"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone doesn't understand the importance of time even after reading these words from great people from different walks of life, then only time can teach them its value. After all, they don't say 'the time is the best teacher' for the sake of it.