Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

William A. Ward 

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. 

Confucius

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Richard Koch

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. 

J.R.R. Tolkien

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time (….) The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

Richard Koch

Niets is zo praktisch als een goede theorie.

Jaques Monod

It is not that we are short of time.... It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution.. is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness."

Richard Koch

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Dennis Roth

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T.S. Eliot

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

The easiest thing is to react.
The second easiest is to respond.
But the hardest thing is to initiate.

Seth Godin

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again.

Seth Godin

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Stephen Covey

It’s not the progress I mind, it’s the change I don’t like.

Mark Twain

De kapitein die zeilt zonder doel klaagt voortdurend dat de wind uit de verkeerde hoek komt.

Seneca

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Michel de Montaigne

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Nicholas Charles Trublet

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King

However long the night, the dawn will break.

African Proverb

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman?
They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Mark Twain