M. Scott Peck Quotes

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

If you run about trying to make people like you all the time you'd never get anything done.

I'm an extremely busy woman but I still make time for myself and my family. You can do both, and do both well, if you really want to.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

If you don't respect your time, no one will respect your time.

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.