Time Management Quotes

Here are some of my favorite time management quotes that illustrate key time management principles.

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Please note this is not an exhaustive list of time management quotes - just my favorites. Also, be sure to check out my personal growth quotes page.

Enjoy!

Efficiency
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- Cyril Parkinson ("Parkinson's Law")

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
- William of Occam ("Occam's Razor")

Effectiveness
There is more to life than just increasing its speed.
- Gandhi

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
-Stephen Covey

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is, "What are we busy about?"
- Henry David Thoreau

Focus
FOCUS = Follow One Course Until Successful.
- Anonymous

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell

To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Publius Syrus

Busyiness is a form of laziness -
Sloppy thinking and indiscriminate action.
- Tim Ferris

You can't catch one hog when you're chasing two.
- Moe Schaeffer

Focus on Priorities
80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
- Vilfredo Pareto, Italian Economist (Pareto's Law)

Things which matter the most must never
Be at the mercy of things which matter least.
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important
Is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
- Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
-Stephen Covey

If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
-Lily Tomlin

Proactivity
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time, you must make it.
-Charles Bruxton

Plan
Measure twice, cut once.
- Carpenter's Maxim

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless,
But planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

1 hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing.
- Project Management Maxim

Overcome Procrastination
Eat that frog. .
If you have to eat two frogs,
Eat the ugliest one first.
- Brian Tracy

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Napoleon Hill

Presence in the Moment
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That is why they call it the present.
- Kung Fu Panda (of all places to find time time management quotes :)

Start Early
He that rises late must trot all day.
- Benjamin Franklin

Use Your Time Wisely
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time
For that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-Laertius Diogenes

Also, If you've enjoyed these time management quotes, be sure to check out the personal growth quotes page.

Cheers!
Adam

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