Don’t waste now:

You can do so much in 10 minutes. Ten minutes, once gone, is gone for good.
Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
~Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA)

Get off your butt and do something. Lots of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.
~Robert Browning

Soon is not as good as now.
~Seth Godin

Begin what you want to do now. We are not living in an eternity.
~M.B. Ray

Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
~Ben Franklin (up-dated)

Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Today is ready cash. Use it!
~Anon

Make time for planning:

Wars are won in the general’s tent.
~Stephen Covey

A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers consequences.
Proverbs 27:12

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
Sidney A. Friedman

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. . .about when where, and how.
~Carol Dweck

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~Robert Heinlein

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
~Ben Stein

Pull the trigger–take action:

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
~Henry Ford

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
~Walt Disney

A thousand mile journey begins with one step. Start today.
~Unknown

We accomplish in proportion to what we attempt. Have a go!
~Unknown

The only true failure lies in the failure to start.
~Harold Blake Walker

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable. ~Ellen Langer

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
~Unknown

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~Maya Angelou

We should not be taught to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
~Frank Tibolt

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
~Baltasar Gracian

Many people have a good aim in life, but for some reason they never pull the trigger.
~Unknown

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs.
~Vaclac Havel

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
~Aristotle

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
~Andrew Carnegie

Action will destroy your procrastination.
~Og Mandino

Keep going:

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
~Albert Einstein

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
~Voltaire

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
~B.C. Forbes

Check how things are turning out and correct mistakes:

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
~Winston Churchill

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away and move on to something that’s more productive.
~Donald Trump

What can I learn from this setback? What will I do next time?
~Carol Dweck

If you ask people to do things and they usually don’t get around to them, stop asking yourself, “What’s the matter with people these days?” Instead, ask yourself, “What’s the matter with me? What am I doing ( or failing to do) that causes  people to give me empty promises?”
~Edwin Bliss

Finish what you start:

Once you start something, finish it. Don’t accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
~Edwin Bliss

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
~Malcolm S. Forbes

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~William James

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt.
~Unknown

Getting it done is my reward.
~Benjamin Franklin

The reward of a thing done well is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is astonishing how long it takes to finish something you are not working on.
~Unknown

It’s not important who starts the game but who finishes it.
~John Wooden

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone’s patience had turned to active impatience.
~Robert Updegraff

De-clutter your life:

If in doubt, throw it out.
~Anon

A place for everything, and everything in its place.
~Anon

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.
~Edwin Bliss

Less, but better.
~Dieter Rams

Control regret and worry

Never let yesterday use up today.
~Richard H. Nelson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could … Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No worry before its time.
~Ellen Langer

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So. . .sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
~Sherman Finesilver

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
~Tim Ferriss

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use tools and other people to help you:

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
~Steven Levitt

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory.
~Unknown

I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
~Woodrow Wilson

Spend your time wisely:

If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.
~Edwin Bliss

It is more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
~Peter Drucker

It’s better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly.
~Peter Turla

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
~Steve Jobs

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~William James

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
~W. C. Fields

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: “meetings.”
~Dave Barry

Take charge of your time:

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
~Parkinson’s Law

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

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
~H. Jackson Brown

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
~Anthony Robbins

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
~Charles Richards

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~Rodin

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; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
~Thomas Huxley

Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.
~Anon

Some time-management truisms:

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
~Ben Stein

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
~Edwin Bliss

Nothing will work unless you do.
~John Wooden

We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all.
~Daniel Cohen

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.
~ Walter Linn

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius