Top 100 Time Management Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.”

— Tim Ferriss

52. “Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.”

— Brian Tracy

53. “The greatest opportunity in the world is found here today… We already know what yesterday has got for us. It’s already gone. Tomorrow, too far away. What about right now!”

— Ray Lewis

54. “The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.”

— Les Brown

55. “Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

56. “The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don’t know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.”

— William Feather

57. “Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That’s what makes everybody equal.”

— Stedman Graham

58. “Someday is not a day of the week.”

— Janet Dailey

59. “You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.”

— Gary W. Keller

60. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

61. “Make hay while the sun shines.”

— John Heywood

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

63. “Don’t delay. It’s getting late.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

64. “If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

— Zig Ziglar

65. “Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.”

— Khurram Murad

66. “The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

— Richard Paul Evans

67. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

68. “Until my ONE Thing is done – everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary Keller

69. “Plan your work – work your plan.”

— B.C. Forbes

70. “Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.”

— Mark Twain

71. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

72. “Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.”

— Rick Warren

73. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

74. “The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.”

— Robert Harris

75. “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.”

— Nora Roberts

76. “Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.”

— Jim Rohn

77. “If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you’ll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.”

— Bill Phillips

78. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”

— Pete Goss

79. “Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

— Diogenes Laërtius

80. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

81. “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.”

— Jim Rohn

82. “Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

83. “Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.”

— Randy Pausch

84. “Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.”

— Belle de Jour

85. “Don’t waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power – it’s time.”

— David Crosby

86. “The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.”

— Philip Zimbardo

87. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary W. Keller

88. “Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”

— C. Northcote Parkinson

89. “Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.”

— Randy Pausch

90. “Punctuality is the soul of business.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

91. “You can’t manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it’s more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.”

— David Allen

92. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

93. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

94. “The trouble is, you think you have time.”

— Buddha

95. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”

— Farrah Gray

96. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

97. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn

98. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

99. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Henry Ford