Time and productivity quotes

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

More important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.

Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself.

Being busy is a form of laziness, lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

How you wake up each day and your morning routine dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Lost time is never found again.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Simplify, simplify.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

You're not going to get rich renting out your time.

Patience and time are my warriors, my champions.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering, because you can't take it all in at once.