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Management Quotes: Life 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. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. --Carl Sandburg

• I would willingly stand on street corners, hat in hand, begging passersby to drop their unused minutes into it. Unknown

• Time exists so that not everything happens at once. unknown

• Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans -John Lennon

• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest  

• Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark

• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. --General Douglas MacArthur  

• If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain.- unknown

• To many time we confuse motion with progress. -Cyclops

• The past is history,
  The future is a mystery
  and now is a gift. That's why we call it the present. - Unknown

• Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying 'really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. Quentin Crisp

• A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. Dr. Who

• You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. --John H. Holcomb

• "Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done." -- Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
• "Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself." -- Robert F. Bennett

• How do you know you are there? When you don't have to ask the question anymore.- A Sufi Proverb

• Everything is a once-in-a-lifetime experience! --Unknown

• I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. --Lance Armstrong

• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. --Betty Ford

• Live today as you are dying tomorrow and Work today as you are living forever - Prophet Mohammed

• Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. --Horace Walpole
• Life is too important to be taken seriously. --Oscar Wilde

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