Priorities Quotes
207 quotes
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."
"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."
"A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)"
"She was too well-trained to panic."
"Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time."
"When you set a goal, you have a responsibility to yourself to see it through. No matter how impossible it may seem, resolve to accomplish it."
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
"When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well."
"Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want."
"My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals."
"You blast me open and then You stand back and watch My feeble attempts To deal with myself. Where do I turn In my now desperate need for love? You are not there. There is no one else to turn to For I have made you my Everything. And in my exhaustion From my desperate moments,I slip into myself And there I find God waiting for me To love Him to love me to love you Because you are the matchmaker. I thought He was leading me to you But, surprise surprise, You were leading me to Him."
"Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP simply by keeping a strict focus on Time, Objectivity and Prioritising. As simple as that!"
"I'll always choose you.Gabe Willoughby"
"The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can’t remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member."
Joe Jordan, Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success
"Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them."
"Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something."
"You're not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you."
"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life"
"Effective life management isn’t about finding more time to fill; it’s about recognizing you don’t have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a “have to” is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, “No.” We just need to be ready to live with the consequences."
Joe Jordan, Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success
"The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read."
"Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities."
"It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them."
"Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a time to it and be focused on achieving it."
"Time kills essence! Don’t give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now!"
"The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him."
D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
"Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting"
"If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been."
"Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?"
"Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact."
"Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live."
"When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities."
"We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls."
Peggy Noonan, Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
"In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feelings. Metaphorically speaking, we are constantly giving birth to priorities; our priorities are perpetually reassessed and we perpetually adjust to accomplish them.Some call this "Change." I call it, improving ourselves by means through the inner self."
"In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise."
"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones."
"You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another."
Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
"Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright"
Walter Isaacson, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
"A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will."
"Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter."
L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
"Health first, then everything else."
"I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk)"
"In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important."
Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
"There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be."
Christopher Ash, Zeal Without Burnout: Seven Keys to a Lifelong Ministry of Sustainable Sacrifice
"If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something."
"Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be."
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