Schedules Quotes
- Sarah Ind
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 13, 2025
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labour with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.
Annie Dillard
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
When ours are interrupted, His are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).
Elisabeth Elliot
Time management is all about distinguishing between what is important for you and what simply lures you into useless activities.
Dr Prem Jagyasi
If there’s one thing that I’ve repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create times where it’s not scheduled.
Craig D Lounsbrough
The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.
John Piper
Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.
Reid Hoffman
Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
Avoid hyper-scheduling yourself so you have free time to do something creative or perhaps to do nothing at all.
Melissa Steginus
I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Earl of Chesterfield
A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.
Peter Turla
God's plan will continue on God's schedule.
A W Tozer
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
Mitch Albom
I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.
Mark Consuelos
The best way to effectively use time is to schedule it.
Sunday Adelaja
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Wilkie Collins
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Arthur Bloch
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.
Joyce Meyer