Madeleine Albright Quotes

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

That man is idle who can do something better.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.