To respond is positive, to react is negative.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
—Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American Aviator
Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.
—Seth Godin (b.1960) American Entrepreneur
Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
—Dorothy Day (1897–1980) American Journalist, Christian Activist
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
There is time for everything.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
—Brian Koslow
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
It’s not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that’s important.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
To accomplish more, redirect your mental energy by continuously reminding yourself of all the things you do right.
—Brian Koslow
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
—William Hutchinson Murray (1913–96) Scottish Mountaineer
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world—that I am able to change it in positive ways.
—Maxine Hong Kingston (b.1940) Chinese-American Novelist, Memoirist
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
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