Quotes on Time Management

Collection of ancient quotes regarding time management. Time management is important for avoiding idleness and living to your full potential.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.

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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

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For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.

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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

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Leave no stone unturned.

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.

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Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each
day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The
greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and
loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and
abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are
you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

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Getting to the bottom of the matter is the direct way to success.

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

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Necessity makes even the timid brave.

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.

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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

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If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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Soft water makes holes in rock over time, you must work hard to change yourself.

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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

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Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

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Remember how long you have procrastinated, and how consistently you have failed to put to good use you suspended sentence from the gods. It is about time you realized the nature of the universe (of which you are part) and of the power that rules it (to which your art owes its existence). Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

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