"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
100 Top-Notch Quotes about Time Management
"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."
Charles Baudelaire
(April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
"Time heals what reason cannot."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger
(c. 3 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman,dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was later forced to commit suicide for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent.
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and polymath. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature theology, philosophy, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust.
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
Henry Ford
(July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
Victor-Marie Hugo
(26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
"Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
(14 November 1889–27 May 1964) was an Indian statesman who was the first (and to date the longest-serving) prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement.
"I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time."
Steven Alexander Wright
(born December 6, 1955) is an American comedian, actor and writer.
"Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities."
Charles Caleb Colton
(1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
"Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste."
Benjamin Franklin
(January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
