Inspirational Time Management Quotes

Time management quotes and can be a powerful tool for you in effecting change within yourself or to express the way that you feel and the beliefs that you hold.

These quotes encourage you to act in a positive and successful manner. 

Time management Quotes

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

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Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits.

- Winston Churchill

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

- Benjamin Franklin 

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- Henry Ford

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

- Elbert Hubbard

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...

- Aristotle

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

- Zig Ziglar

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

- Malcolm S. Forbes 

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

- Karen Lamb

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

 - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

You may delay, but time will not.

- Benjamin Franklin

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

 - George Claude Lorimer

We hope that you use these time management quotes to help you remain focused and motivated towards your goals. 

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