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“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” – Victor Hugo

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar

“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” – Alexis Carrel

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin FranklinCLICK TO TWEET
How you can use these to plan your day better
As the famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar said, we all have the same 24 hours. And learning to use them to their best potential is at the core of time management.

Start by tracking how you spend your time to understand where it’s going (and where it’s being wasted). Then, listen to the words of Carrel and Hugo who championed morning routines, evening reviews, and setting and following daily goals.

Time management quotes about setting priorities
Time management comes down to making choices. Should you spend your day in meetings or block out time to work on your more important work? Should you wake up early or hit the snooze button?

Here are some powerful quotes on how to set priorities and make good choices with your time:

Time management quotes thoreau
“You must vie with time’s swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.” ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” – Tony Morgan

“Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” – Alan Lakein

How you can use these to set better priorities
More than anything, these quotes remind us that time is fleeting. And if we don’t actively set priorities and protect our time, it will be taken from us.

Remember to separate the urgent from the important, create your own “avoid-at-all-costs” list, and bring back “no” into your vocabulary.

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Time management quotes about beating procrastination
Despite knowing what we need to do, it’s easy to push it off for some later date. And while procrastination is commonplace, let’s hear from some of the world’s most prolific creators how they push through it:

Time management quotes Stephen King
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” – Anonymous

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.” – Wayne Dyer

“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

“The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.” – Chris GuillebeauCLICK TO TWEET
How you can use these to fight off procrastination
Procrastination is less of strictly a time management issue and more of an emotional one. Again, recognizing the issue is the first step in fighting procrastination.

Listen to Founding Father Benjamin Franklin when he says that time won’t stop (even if you ignore it). Then, recognize, as Chris Guillebeau said, that even if you have procrastinated, starting now is the best thing you can do.

Finally, get moving by following best-selling author Stephen King’s advice and just start! Researchers have found that telling yourself you’ll work on something just for 5 minutes is usually enough to break down the emotional barrier and beat procrastination.

Time management quotes about finding your focus
If procrastination and planning aren’t issues for you, I’m sure that focus is.

We all get caught up in daydreams, get distracted, or simply lose our focus. But getting the most out of your time means being laser focused when you need to be.

Here are some quotes distilling the secrets to staying focused all day long:

Time management quotes Peter Drucker
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.” – Barry Werner

“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” – Sara Paddison

How you can use these to get your focus back
As Einstein puts it, important work deserves your focus. Follow Werner and Drucker’s advice and decide what deserves your attention. Next, recognize that you most likely only have 4–5 hours of productive, focused work a day. That means that for anything that is “useless”, as Lee says, it’s time to either ditch it or delegate.

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Time management quotes about boosting productivity
The goal of time management is always productivity—to get more done in less time. However, this doesn’t come down to just planning when you’ll work, but understanding the best ways how to work. Here are some suggestions:

Time management quotes Paul J Meyer
“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” – Charles Richards

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren BuffettCLICK TO TWEET
How you can use these to give your productivity a bump
Productivity doesn’t just happen on its own as Meyer, the founder of the Success Motivation Institute, said. Instead, there are very specific things you need to do to be more productive.

That means becoming self-aware of what work drives the biggest results, blocking out external distractions, and optimizing your daily schedule to do the right work at the right time.

Time management quotes about multitasking
It’s always tempting to try to do more than one thing at a time. But science, and these quotes show that multitasking simply isn’t an option if you want to manage your time properly.

Time management quotes Alexander Graham Bell
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publius Syrus

“The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.” – Mozart

“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” – Lee Iacocca

How you can use these to quit multitasking
What all 3 quotes here acknowledge is that splitting your attention between tasks means not giving your all to either. If we want real results and to spend our time wisely, it’s more important to focus solely on one task before moving onto the next.

Time management quotes about making better decisions
As we said before, time management comes down to making good decisions. But sometimes we need a little reminder of that. Here are some influential quotes about the sheer importance of the choices you make about how you spend your time:

Time management quotes Bruce Lee
“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Anonymous

“It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.” – Marcia Wieder

How you can use these to make better choices about how you spend your time
It all comes down to what Lee says: Life is time. Don’t obsess over deadlines, as Adam notes, but rather apply your time in the best ways possible. As von Goethe says, you’ll always have enough time to do the things you want, if you choose to spend your time on those tasks.

Time management quotes about the importance of rest
Lastly, while time management seems to be so much about doing more, it’s important to also take time to rest.

Disconnecting from work lets our mind and body recharge. It ensures that when we are working next, we’re working at full capacity.

Time management quotes Ovid
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“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.” – Louisa May Alcott

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”




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Steve Maraboli
“The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
tags: action, doing-your-best, failure, happiness, inspirational, life, moment, motivational, now, today57 likesLike
“Always do your best in whatever you do;
set goals and seek challenges;
become a role model for those coming behind you; and
always have God in your heart.”
― Charles F. Bolden
tags: challenges, doing-your-best, goals, role-models43 likesLike
Lori Deschene
“At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.”
― Lori Deschene
tags: doing-your-best, end-of-the-day, good-enough, self-acceptance, self-awareness-quotes14 likesLike
“Your haters gather the most at the sidelines.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.
tags: doing-the-extraordinary, doing-the-impossible, doing-your-best, haters, mainstream, perserverance-quotes, strength-through-adversity, willpower, winning-attitude8 likesLike
Richelle E. Goodrich
“I believe people are more inclined to do their best, not when they feel loved, but when they feel loved regardless.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
tags: doing-your-best, love, motivation, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, testing-love, true-love5 likesLike
“You seem irrelevant because your relevance seems latent. You seem irrelevant because your relevance is not speaking the language they understand. You seem irrelevant because you have not yet proven the evidence that is relevant. You seem irrelevant because you are still holding your relevance. People are more interested in works that work than mere works. People are much more interested in the relevance of actions than mere actions. People are more interested in your whole self in action and the relevance of the action than your mere action. There is something to be done. There is a footprint to leave. We must do something relevant. A proven relevance is relevant for our relevance in all matters of life.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
tags: branding, branding-quotes, doing-your-best, feeling-relevant, inspirational-quotes, latent-action, life-and-living, life-lessons, matters-of-life, matters-of-the-heart, procrastination, purpose-driven-life, relevance, relevance-of-principles, staying-focused, staying-positive, understanding-yourself, wisdom-quotes5 likesLike
Lailah Gifty Akita
“It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: adventure, adventure-time, adventure-travel, calling, desire, desires-quotes, doing-what-you-love, doing-your-best, exciting, exciting-life, excitment, greatness-quotes, mission, potential-for-greatness, potential-quotes, wishes-dreams, wishes-for-new-year, wishes-quotes, work-ethic, working-together, working-with-people5 likesLike
“Complaining while everyone else is actually doing something is you sucking”
― Jennifer Cotton
tags: complaining, complaining-quotes, doing-the-impossible, doing-your-best3 likesLike
Lailah Gifty Akita
“You have to love what you do, to give your best.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: doing-good, doing-right, doing-what-you-love, doing-your-best, exercise, exercise-motivation, expectations, give-your-best, give-your-best-shot, great-expectations, love-quotes, love-story, love-your-work, lovers, loving-people, spiritual-quotes, sports, sports-inspirational, training, training-yourself, work, work-ethic, work-hard, work-hard-quote, work-out, work-out-etiquette, working3 likesLike
“the life we live is so uncertain that that we can least predict the very uncertainty that would be our woe. Whether we risk something or we do not risk anything, there is a risk for us to take from dawn to dusk. It is noteworthy then that it is highly riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at the mercy of uncertain risks of life”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
tags: doing-your-best, footprints, living-for-anything, living-your-best-life, mediocrity, psyche, reasons-for-action, reasons-to-dare, risk-taking, risking-nothing, taking-a-step, the-future, thoughts-on-life, uncertainties, uncertainty-quotes, unpredictable-future, woes-of-life3 likesLike
“When the week begins, try your best to let your best overcome your worst and that is the best. Do your best to have a good week and never be weak in the week.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
tags: beggining-the-week, doing-the-impossible, doing-your-best, have-a-great-week, living-well, living-well-in-the-day, living-well-quotes, overcoming-fear, overcoming-obstacles, overcoming-pain, the-best-option, weak, weakness, weakness-and-strength, weakness-quotes3 likesLike
E.A. Bucchianeri
“You won't do your best unless your creative fire is allowed to burn free.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly
tags: creative, creative-fire, creative-people, creativity, doing-your-best, freedom, freedom-of-expression, liberty2 likesLike
“Common things are common and Uncommon things are uncommon. Let it be a footprint that you are uncommon to be common in common things.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
tags: common-sense, common-things, common-thoughts, distinctive-footprints, doing-it-differently, doing-the-right-thing, doing-your-best, let-it-be-a-footprint, life, stay-uncommon, the-best-things, think-differently2 likesLike
Mehmet Murat ildan
“Everybody seems to be doing different things but actually they do the same thing: They try to survive in this world, each with their own style!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: different-things, doing-your-best, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, style, style-quotations, style-quotes, survive, survive-life1 likesLike
“No one can predict the quantity of a lifespan but we can affect our quality of life exponentially.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.
tags: doing-your-best, doing-your-life-s-work, lifespan, lifestyle-change, living-life-to-the-fullest, quality-of-lifelife, success-quotes, successful-living1 likesLike
Allan Dare Pearce
“I believe you get up in the morning and do the best you can.”
― Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
tags: doing-your-best, getting-up1 likesLike
“You have to first do your best before you expect God to do the rest for you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
tags: do-your-best, doing-your-best, edmond-mbiaka, god-will-do-the-rest-for-you1 likesLike
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Happily, we do the work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: doing-better, doing-what-you-love, doing-your-best, fulfilling-purpose, full-potential, happiness-quote, happy-life, happyquotes, team-building, team-spirit, team-work-quotes, teamwork, training, training-yourself, travel, wishes-fulfilled, work, work-hard, working, working-hours, working-together1 likesLike
Allen Drury
“The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can.”
― Allen Drury, Into What Far Harbor?
tags: doing-your-best1 likesLike
“I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do.”
― Midori Ito
tags: doing-your-best, regrets1 likesLike
Lailah Gifty Akita
“If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: advice, artist, doing-your-best, education, enthusiasm, fait, fulfilling-your-destiny, good-geeds, great-expectation, great-work, inspirational, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, leaders, leadership, lessons-learnt, life, mission, motivation, muscian, passion, passionate-life, positive, positive-attitude, self-worth, service, sprituality, teachers, team-spirit, volunteerism, wise-words, work, working-togethe, you-can, yourself0 likesLike
Dexter Palmer
“It is always at this time, just before he slips into unconsciousness, when the voice comes to him: not as loud and snide and insistent as it once was, but still there, still hounding him from behind, still trying to drive him stumbling forward. Is this the best you can do?

Tonight, for the first time in many, many years, Philip chooses not to ignore it: he answers. It is. It really is.

Then say it, and shout down the darkness.

'It is," Philip whispers between clenched teeth as Alicia mumbles and stirs in her slumber. 'It is!”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control
tags: dexter-palmer, doing-your-best, galvanizing, inspiring, mental-illness, recovery, version-control, voices-inside-your-head0 likesLike
Kangoma Kindembo
“Sight is precious than light.”
― Kangoma Kindembo
tags: doing-the-impossible-quotes, doing-the-right-thing, doing-what-you-love, doing-your-best, focus-on-positive, focus-on-success, focus-on-the-prize-ahead, focus-quotes, getting-things-done0 likesLike
“I don't aim to be the most important person in the world. I strive to constantly do my best, so as to manifest the best in me.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
tags: always-do-your-best, doing-your-best, edmond-mbiaka, manifest-the-best-in-you, manifesting-the-best-in-you, most-important-person, trying-to-be-important0 likesLike
Dick Van Dyke
“As I’d found time and again throughout my life—and would continue to find—you do what you can, say your prayers, and hope for the best.”
― Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
tags: doing-your-best, hope, lessons-learned, prayer0 likesLike
“Don’t beat yourself up for what you couldn’t do, or didn’t do. Just do the best you can now, now, and now.”
― Akiroq Brost
tags: doing-your-best, inner-dialogue, regret0 likesLike
“Let you keep doing your things with enthusiasm, warmth, care, indulgence, humor & with best of your abilities without much complaining about your world, surroundings, situations & past. Let you stop being scared, lost, insecure, weary, restless, impatient or unsure forcing yourself to live a sad & inauthentic life. Let you believe that, in reality, you are like another pearl, treasure, bloom, a gentle breeze, a white candle in a holy place, a part of seven seas & just like the sun. Let you always remain happier, loving, joyful & free. Let you always be a sweet blessing, sunshine, drop of joy & someone who makes his world feel safe, warm & comfortable. Let you always have everything you want & need available to you. Stay Healthy, Successful & Blessed!”
― Rajesh Goyal
tags: blessings-quotes, doing-your-best, god, happiness-quotes, india, inspirational-quotes-about-life, prayer-quotes, rajesh-goyal, you0 likesLike
“The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there!”
― Shannon Mayhew