Time Management/Planning
I'm definitely going to take a course in time management ... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule -- Louis Borne, (1945- ) American educator and business writer.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for time is the stuff life is made of - Ben Franklin
Time is money - Ben Franklin
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere - Henry Kissenger (1923 - ), US Secretary of State
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it - Golda Meir (1989-1978), Israeli politician
You can never plan the future by the past - Edmund Burke
Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day - Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794)
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark - Howard Ruff (1930)
Misspending one's time is a kind of self-homicide - George Savile, Marquess de Halifax (1633-1695)
Time Urgency
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry - John Jensen
Those who rush arrive first at the grave - Spanish proverb.
He who is hurried cannot walk gracefully - Chinese proverb.
Nothing is so vulgar as to be in a hurry - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The best thinking is done in solitude. The worst is done in turmoil - Thomas Edison
There is more to life than increasing its speed - Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948)
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED - W.R. Greg, Life at High Pressure (1877)
I've tried relaxing, but -- I don't know -- I feel more comfortable when I am stressed -- Cartoon caption.
For fast acting relief from stress, try slowing down - Lily Tomlin (1939- ), American actress and comedian
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it - Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Procrastination
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now - Chinese Proverb.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present - Roger Babson
You may delay, but time will not - Ben Franklin
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese - Comedian Steven Wright
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops - George Eliot (1819-1880)
Procrastination is the thief of time - Edward Young (1683-1765)
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Miscellaneous Quotes Related To Time
I have a microwave fireplace. You can lay in front of it all night in only 8 minutes - Comedian Stephen Wright.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion - Parkinson's Law (1957), Bartlett's Quotations, p. 876 (14).
I was expecting this, but not so soon - Tombstone inscription, Boot Hill, AZ.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein.
To do 2 things at once is to do neither - Publilius Syrus (1st Century B.C.), Latin writer of mimes
My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one - Woody Allen (1935- ), American actor, director, and comedian
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time - Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
Better never than late - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - William James (1842-1910)
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by - Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so - Douglas Adams
I've been on a calendar, but never on time - Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
He gives twice who gives promptly - Publilius Syrus, first century B.C.
Deadlines are the mothers of invention - John Shanahan (1939- )
Luck is fascinated with the efficient - Persian Proverb
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear – Bumper Sticker
Time's fun when you're having flies - Kermit the Frog
He's a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time it is -- Lou Duva
(1996), veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight
Andrew Golota.