10 Motivating Time Management Quotes

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You are not going to believe all the time management quotes we analyzed for you. We violated the advice of several of them in the process, but in the end found 10 incredibly inspiring quotes about time management.

If we had time, we'd print out and hang every single one of these quotes in the home office.

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Don't procrastinate.

Indeed, let's get the obvious out of the way. There is so much wisdom, so many quotes in this vein. Benjamin Franklin was huge, huge about time management and procrastination, so much so that most of his quotes are familiar to us as proverbs. Seneca gives us a new twist to think about regarding procrastination. Procrastination is a sort of laser-focused concentration: you devote vast resources of unconscious energy into not doing something. So much energy, even, that we might not even notice opportunities passing by.

Seneca's relevance today? Procrastination-goaders like Facebook, Twitter, texting, and Internet forums make us feel we're involved in life while in reality, life is speeding by around us. Try to limit social networking to only what's necessary—and be honest with yourself about what's necessary!

You procrastinated anyway. Now get over it.

It was either this lovely Maugham quote or a practical quote, one of disputed origin by either Carl Sandburg or Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Maugham won out because, well, just read it. Wow. It's so applicable to all areas of life, not only time management, but also so very perfect for reminding us to seize the moment.

Working alone in a home office, it's easy to get bogged down thinking about the past. Perhaps yesterday there was a client problem. Maybe for the past month business has been slow. There are probably nagging thoughts about past experiences in your home office that influence how you still work even today.

This quote reminds us that the past is gone and the present is everlasting. Every moment is a clean slate, a new opportunity.

Take time to chill out.

Even in Cicero's time, people knew that working all the time was bad for you, enslaved you. Carve out some free time daily from your home office schedule.

Multitasking is bad.

To go a step further, multitasking is terrible. It's distracting, disrupts brain patterns, makes it harder to concentrate, and as Syrus pointed out in the first century BC, multitasking leads to poorer quality on both things being worked on in the end.

Be punctual.

The greatest perk of most home office workers is setting their own hours. However, impressions still count when dealing with clients or the public, and Shakespeare reminds us of how being even a minute late for a meeting can leave a bad impression.

Read on to the next page for more time management quotes.