13 Time Saving Quotes from Famous People
If you’ve ever fretted about the fact that some people seem to get so much more done in their 24 hours, just think about this. It must be a problem affecting lots of people over the millennia—or we wouldn’t have so many quotes on the subject! From presidents to poets, from philosophers to pianists, they shared their thoughts on the importance of finding time.
Take a minute to read on for some inspiration on why we need to save time because, as Art Buchwald put it: Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got!
And according to Brian Tracy, Your greatest resource is your time.
Now first up, hear this!
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. So said H. Jackson Brown, Jr. who you might remember wrote Life’s Little Instruction Book.
So how can we make the most of it?
When we are doing what we love, we don’t care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn’t exist and we are truly free (Marcia Wieder)
Why should we make the most of it?
You’re writing the story of your life—one moment at a time. (Doc Childre and Howard Martin)
So, don’t waste it…
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. This confronting truth is from Alice Bloch.
…or, lose it…
The old proverb said: Lost time is never found again. But Horace Mann put it far more graphically: Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
…or delay it…
You may delay, but time will not. (Benjamin Franklin)
…and certainly don’t kill it!
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. (Henry David Thoreau)
Now is time for taking action:
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. (Charles Bixton)
In all of this, there is hope:
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie Prudden)
So if you’re feeling a little short of time, enjoy the tone of wonderful pianist and conductor, Leonard Bernstein. He accomplished so much and believed:
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
