We work not only to produce but to give value to time.

Eugene Delacroix, artist

 

Committee: a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Will Rodgers, humorist

 

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin, printer, inventor, statesman

 

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Neil Armstrong, astronaut

 

If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov, writer

 

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes, author

 

Nothing is easier than being busy and nothing is more difficult than being effective.

R. Alec MacKenzie, time management coach

 

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry, football  coach

 

He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labor, makes his pupils work the hardest and bustles the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one eagle.

Emma Hart Willard, educator

 

A wise person does at once what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, only at different times.

John Dalberg Action, historian

 

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? A hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

jean Anouilh, dramatist

 

Guard your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the biggest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

 

I always say to myself; What is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment?

Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect, author

 

The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything.

Lee lacocca, executive

 

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Kathie Kollwitz, artist

 

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the moment.

Joseph Addison, poet

 

Still on it creeps,/ Each little moment at another's heels,/ Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up/ Of such small parts as these, and men look back/ Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Joanna Baillie, poet, dramatist

 

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delighted, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Louisa May Alcott, novelist

 

I try to live what I consider a 'poetic existence.' That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

maya Angelou, poet

 

Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

Buddha, religious leader

 

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got ahold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw, author

 

After you have been fired at, you have a perception about life where you appreciate what you have. You realize that 100 years from now you and I will both be dust, and the ego becomes a little smaller.

Rashid Khan, CEO, Ultimus

 

I must govern the clock, not begoverned by it.

Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister

 

 

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Thomas Alva Edison, inventor

 

 

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire, poet

 

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt, essayist

 

 

Nothing is ours except time.

Seneca, statesman, dramatist

 

 

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth...that we have no way of knowing when our time is up...that we will begin to live each day...that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist

 

When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; all he expected from his power comes to nothing.

Proverbs 11:7

 

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker, author

 

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci, artist

 

 

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin, sculptor

 

 

Time is a circus...always packing up and moving away.

Ben Hecht, author

 

 

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this is shown in the proverbial phrase, "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

C.Northcote Parkinson, historian

 

 

Every situation...no, every moment...is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole enternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet

 

Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by, and another takes its place.

Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher

 

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Edison, inventor

 

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far-off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden, lawyer

 

Confidence comes from hours and days weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Roger Staubach, football player

 

Forget the past and live in the present hour./ Now is the time to work, the time to fill/ The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

Sarah Knowles Bolton, poet, reformer

 

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Bernard Berenson, art historian