100 Top-Notch Quotes about Time Management

"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time."

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"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century.


"You can never plan the future by the past."

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.


"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler (20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885) He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.


"Time and I against any two."

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer.


"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer.


"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln.


"Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones."

Chuck Sigars (-) The world according to Chuck, weblog september 2003


"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (born August 31, 1938 in Dallas, Texas) is an American journalist and playwright.


"Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

James Alonzo "Jim" Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author.