100 Top-Notch Quotes about Time Management

"How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives."

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction.


"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children.


"Lost time is never found."

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.


"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time."

Leo Kennedy (-) Canadian poet.


"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.


"If you want work well done, select a busy man- the other kind has no time."

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.


"Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes."

Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays.


"I value the friends who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Robert Brault (-)


"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama and he wrote more than 60 plays.


"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat.