1. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 1 Self-Management Do not confuse a creator with a dreamer. Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality. – Robert Fritz

2. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 2 Self-Management While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well. – Johnetta B. Cole

3. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 3 Self-Management Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. – Carl Sandburg

4. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 4 Self-Management The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer

5. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 5 Self-Management I am personally persuaded that the essence of the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: organize and execute around priorities. – Stephen Covey

6. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 6 Self-Management I think that learning about and using time is a very complicated kind of learning. Many adults still have difficulty with it. – Virginia Satir

7. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 7 Self-Management You've got to put down on paper the ten things that you absolutely have to do. That's what you concentrate on. Everything else—forget it. – Lee Iacocca

8. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 8 Self-Management Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. – Thomas Henry Huxley

9. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 9 Self-Management When the seniors in the College Board study were asked what contributed to a successful and satisfying career in college, 73 percent said the “ability to organize tasks and time effectively.” – Tim Walter and Al Siebert

10. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 10 Self-Management Without discipline, there is no life at all. – Katherine Hepburn

11. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 11 Self-Management I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. – Harry S. Truman

12. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 12 Self-Management The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. – Helen Gurley Brown

13. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 13 Self-Management Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing. – Ernest J. Gaines

14. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 14 Self-Management Press on: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge

15. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 15 Self-Management Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do. – Martina Navratilova

16. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 16 Self-Management What saves us is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but we have to take it. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

17. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 17 Self-Management When a job is once begun, never stop until it’s done. Be the job large or small, do it right or not at all. – Carol Mosely-Braun

18. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 18 Self-Management Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter Drucker

19. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 19 Self-Management We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. – Helen Keller

20. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 20 Self-Management It is not enough to be busy...the question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau

21. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 21 Self-Management Act before there is a problem; Bring order before there is disorder. – Lao Tzu

22. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 22 Self-Management The great doing of little things makes the great life. – Eugenia Price

23. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 23 Self-Management Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 24 Self-Management All the best work is done the way ants do things—by tiny untiring and regular additions. – Lefcadio Hearn

25. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 25 Self-Management Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious. – Lech Walesa

26. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Self-Management - 26 Self-Management The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain