M. Russell Ballard Quotes

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.