Time management means managing your priorities, your energy... and sometimes your balance. How do you cope with the many demands on your time? Knowing how to organise your time effectively has become essential. These 12 quotes invite you to take a step back, reflect on your relationship with time, and adopt calmer, more efficient practices on a daily basis.

So much time wasted saving time!
Paul Morand, French writer

The costliest expense is wasted time.
Theophrastus, Greek philosopher

We don't lack time, but we have a lot of it that we don't know how to use.
Seneca, Roman philosopher and playwright

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control and the clock keeps ticking, no matter how we manage our lives. Priority management is the answer to making the most of the time we have.
John C. Maxwell, American author

The best way to start is to stop talking and start doing.
Walter Elias Disney, American producer and director

Time is the most valuable asset you have. Don't waste it.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.

Those who misuse their time are the first to complain about its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyère, French writer

I'm definitely going to take a course on time management...as soon as I can fit it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone, American author

Effective time management is about choices, not watches.
Stephen Covey, American businessman and lecturer

The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot.
Michael Altshuler, American entrepreneur and lecturer

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours a day as Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, American author

Leaving early in the morning is decided in the evening.
Malinke proverb