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Time Management Quotes and Sayings

Abhijit Naik
They say, time is money. We believe they are right. Here are some motivational time management quotes, which will help you realize its importance in your day-to-day life.
Time management is of utmost importance if you are to achieve excellence in your personal and professional life. Time is not a resource that 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; instead, he chooses to crib about losing valuable time.

Time Management Quotes and Sayings that Inspire

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

"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
"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
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
― Charles Buxton
"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
If someone doesn't understand the importance of time even after going through these quotes, which come from people who were considered the stalwarts of their respective fields, then only time can teach them its value. After all, they say 'time is the best teacher'  for a reason.