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How to Manage your Time: Quotes about Time Mangaement

Managing time efficiently is one of the issue with many of us, here are some great inspirational quotes to make us want to manage our time better and live the best life with our loved ones.

Never let yesterday use up today. -Richard H. Nelson

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.– W. Somerset Maugham

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

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -Anthony Robbins

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

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. –Lord Chesterfield

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. -Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. -Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. -Thomas Jefferson

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. –William Shakespeare

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Time Management and Productivity Books:

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos

 

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. –William Penn

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

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

Time is the wisest counselor of all. –Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. –Delmore Schwartz

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

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. -William Shakespeare

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. -Aeschylus

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
-Sir John Lubbock

I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
-Louis E. Boone

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. -Jean De La Bruyere

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
-Franklin Field

A year from now you will wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo Kennedy

While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca

You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin

Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today. -Benjamin Franklin

Histories make men wise. -Francis Bacon

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin

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

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. -Carl Sandburg

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiring Story: Abraham Lincoln

More I learn about Abraham Lincoln, the more inspired I am by his life and his achievement that he achieved in his short life.

Abraham Lincoln never quits.

Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown.

Abraham Lincoln was one the best presidents in US history of President. That is because he never gave up despite his humble origins.

Here is a sketch of Lincoln’s road to the Presidency:

  • 1816 His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them.
  • 1818 His mother died.
  • 1831 Failed in business.
  • 1832 Ran for state legislature – lost.
  • 1832 Also lost his job – wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in.
  • 1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt.
  • 1834 Ran for state legislature again – won.
  • 1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken.
  • 1836 Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.
  • 1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated.
  • 1840 Sought to become elector – defeated.
  • 1843 Ran for Congress – lost.
  • 1846 Ran for Congress again – this time he won – went to Washington and did a good job.
  • 1848 Ran for re-election to Congress – lost.
  • 1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state – rejected.
  • 1854 Ran for Senate of the United States – lost.
  • 1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention – get less than 100 votes.
  • 1858 Ran for U.S. Senate again – again he lost.
  • 1860 Elected president of the United States.

He did great many things for the country while he was president before he was shot. All of this because he did not give up and quit. So, many time when I feel like like giving up or quitting, I remind myself of his story and I start again! And you should too.

Abraham Lincoln Resources:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

What Would Lincoln Do?: Lincoln’s Most Inspired Solutions to Challenging Problems and Difficult Situations

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

Dream Sayings: Inspiring Dream Quotes

Dream can come true for many of us, only if we dream and believe!

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.
-Eva Green

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.
-Lope de Vega

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
-Usher Raymond

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
-Rene Descartes

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
-Jane Roberts

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
-Amy Lowell

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
-Brian Schweitzer

Dreams are necessary to life.
-Anais Nin

That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
-Joseph Barbera

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
-Roy Orbison

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-Henry David Thoreau

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
-Paul Valery

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Zhuangzi

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
-Edgar Cayce

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
-George Santayana

I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-M. C. Escher

reams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what’s in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition

Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any Dream

Dream Dictionary : An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.
-Andre Breton

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
-Khalil Gibran

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
-Madonna Ciccone

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
-Jesse Owens

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
-Debi Thomas

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.
-David Herbert Lawrence

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
-Katie Holmes

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
-Bill Watterson

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
-Robert Kennedy

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
-Charley Pride

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
-Lenny Wilkens

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
-Michael Bloomberg

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
-Darren L. Johnson

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Anatole France

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Jung

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
-Joan Didion

Motivational Quotes to Inspire you

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. –Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. –Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe -Latin Proverb

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.–Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind. -Unknown

The best way out is always through. –Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. –William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. – Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost. -Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. –Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls. -Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Shelley

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash. -George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resources:

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: Possibly the best way to start your day (Volume 1)

DailyOM: Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Day