time management quotes

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I love being busy.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Delay is preferable to error.

I just don’t have time to get old!

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Better never than late.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Short cuts make long delays.

We must use time creatively.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.