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Success...Issues...PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
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0415  C
“Do you love life? Then do not squander time. For time is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Age

0416  P
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” — Jean de La Bruyere
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness

0417  C
“Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Procrastination, Health & Fitness

0418
“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Motivation, Effectiveness

0419
“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” — Alexis Carrel
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Effectiveness

0420
“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.” — Victor (Marie) Hugo
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Chance, Habit

0421  P
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Judgment, Family & Friends

0422  P
“What deserves your attention most is the last thing to get it.” — Epictetus
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Family & Friends

0423  PA
“Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Effectiveness

0424
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” — Doug Larsen
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Perseverance

0425  A
“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” — Robert M(aynard) Pirsig
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Happiness, Family & Friends

0426  A
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.” — Harold V. Melchert
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Happiness, Age, Health & Fitness

0427  P
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: ‘Think things through - then follow through’.” — Edward Rickenbacker
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Thought, Motivation, Procrastination, Perseverance

0428  C
“Remember that time is money.” — Benjamin Franklin
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Wealth

0429  A
“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.” — George Mason
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Procrastination, Effectiveness

0430
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Wealth, Effectiveness

0431  P
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT , Wealth

0432
“Don’t spend ten dollars’ worth of energy on a ten-cent problem...There are millions of want- to’s and have-to’s in life. Ultimately, these pressures create stress only when your time and energy-spending decisions aren’t consistent with your goals, beliefs and values.” — Dr. Donald A(lbert) Tubesing
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Decision Making, Principles

0433
“The goal of yesterday will be the starting point of tomorrow.” — Thomas Carlyle
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Motivation, Procrastination

0434
“Time - unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.” — Peter F. Drucker
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Leadership

0435
“If your aim is control, it must be self-control first. If your aim is management, it must be self- management first. Beside the task of acquiring the ability to organize a day’s work, all else you will ever learn about management is but child’s play.” — E. B. Osborn
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Authority, Leadership, Planning, Patience

0436
“Those who can command themselves command others.” — William Hazlitt
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Authority, Leadership, Perseverance, Patience

0437
“You’ve removed most of the roadblocks to success when you’ve learned the difference between motion and direction.” — Bill Copeland
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Planning, Effectiveness, Vision, Leadership

0438
“I wasted time, now doth time waste me.” — William Shakespeare
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Procrastination

0439
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Bertrand Russell
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Happiness, Health & Fitness

0440  H
“The trouble with being punctual is that there’s no one there to appreciate it.” — Unknown
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Reward

0441
“Goals determine what you’re going to be.” — Julius Erving
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Potential, Excellence

0442
“If you lose an hour in the morning, you have to hunt for it the rest of the day.” — Chinese Proverb
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Procrastination, Effectiveness

0443  C
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.” — Lord Philip D. Stanhope Chesterfield
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness

0444  A
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Excellence

0445
“Make the most of the day by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.” — Charles Caleb Colton
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Knowledge, Family & Friends

0446
“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.” — Horace Mann
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Age, Death

0447  A
“As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them.” — Charles Caleb Colton
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Chance

0448
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things... I am tempted to think... there are no little things.” — Bruce Barton
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Attitude, Excellence

0449  PA
“Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Arts

0450
“Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.” — E(dgar) W(atson) Howe
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Business, Effectiveness

0451
“Talk of nothing but business and dispatch the business quickly.” — Aldus Manutius
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness

0452  A
“Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Wealth, Effectiveness

0453
“Work divided is in that manner shortened.” — Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Effectiveness, Business, Accountability

0454  PA
“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.” — Sir Arthur Helps
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT, Habit, Business

PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Cross-References
Winning—78-79 • Motivation—87, 89-91, 93, 96 • Perseverance—139, 156 • Planning—163, 168 • Happiness—235-238, 243 • Procrastination—250-254, 258-260, 271 • Adversity—289, 303 • Haste—360-362, 365 • Failure—386-387, 391, 401 • Attitude—413 • Effectiveness—455-458, 462, 464-467, 470, 474-475 • Potential—480, 496-497 • Knowledge—571 • Wisdom—575 • Perception—613, 616-617 • Thought—625, 632 • Vision—650 • Decision-Making—691 • Patience—749 • Principles—960 • Conscience—980 • Faith—1012 • Business—1056 • Authority—1108 • Leadership—1146-1147 • Law—1295 • Family & Friends—1369 • Speeches—1406 • Age—1431 • Experience—1465


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