Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time.

I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.

I wake up an hour and a half before I have to leave the house to do everything I need to do. But I have my routine, and I stick to it.

I keep a really tight schedule.

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

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 labor 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.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life

Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.