Effective Time Management Quotes and Proverbs

Quotes to Manage Your Time Wisely

Time is a Valuable Commodity

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield

Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young

Our costliest expenditure is time.
Theophrastus

Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
Thomas Fuller

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Sir Richard Cecil

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Cherish the Present

Strong souls, within the present live,
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their own will.
Lewis Morris

Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.
William Shakespeare

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age! - Charles Caleb Colton

Don't Worry About the Future

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

I never think of the future - it comes oon enough.
Albert Einstein

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill

Punctuality is Important

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
French Proverb

Timeliness is best in all matters.
Hesiod

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

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