Lock in on What Matters Most Quotes

“Shift from being busy to achieving results.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“It is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are we busy about?”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”

“The question I ask myself almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’”

“The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.”

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

“Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.”

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in.”

“If it's important, schedule it.”

“Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“Don't ever say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“Do not be busy. Be productive.”

“Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.”

“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”

“Action expresses priorities.”

“If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.”

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”

“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”

“Concentration is my motto — first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”

“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“When you're a one man show, you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today.”

“Focus on the things that don’t change”

“Smart people focus on the right things”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“It is better to say, 'This one thing I do' than to say, 'These forty things I dabble in.'”

“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

“To do two things at once is to do neither.”

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

“What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”

“Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.”

“By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.”

“Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

“If you have more than three priorities, you have none.”

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time”

“Don't major in the minors”

“Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted by things that don’t add value”

“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

“Concentration is the secret of strength.”

“There are only two things you can do with time: spend it or invest it. If you spend it, it's gone forever. If you invest your time, you'll create a lifetime residual.”

“You’ve got to keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no”

“You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life...”

“There is no better measure of your values than how you spend your time.”

“When you feel like you're not productive, it's not necessarily because you're lazy or because you have bad habits, it's because you're not working on the right projects.”

“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life.”

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.”

“Time is spent where your priorities lie.”

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

“You're either investing time or wasting it.”

“Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.”

“Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”

“The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.”

“Anything that matters requires your full attention.”

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”

“If you win on the big point, you don't sweat the minor ones.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

“Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

“You have to balance your passions, not your time.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

“Your daily schedule reflects your deepest values.”

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

“It's not about time, it's about choices. How are you spending your choices?”

“Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.”

“Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.”

“A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.”

“It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.”

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

“Money is time and time is life. When you take someone's money from them, you're taking their life.”