Priorities Quotes

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

~ Brandon Sanderson

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 know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

~ Walter Isaacson

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

~ Sherry Turkle

You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.

~ Steven Magee

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

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)

~ Joan Bauer

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

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

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

~ Walt Whitman

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

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.

~ Liane Moriarty

He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now and the audition. She needed to go to a mountain chalet (somewhere with good acoustics) and live and breathe nothing but music. Go for walks. Meditate. Eat well. Do all those positive-visualization exercises young musicians did these days. She had an awful suspicion that if she were to do this in reality, she might not even miss Sam and the children that much, or if she did miss them, it would be quite bearable.

~ Liane Moriarty

Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart.

~ Dixie Waters

Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your staying power, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time

~ Lauren Klarfeld

You're not a priority if you're an option, you are a percentage. A percentage of that other person's time and effort. The size of the pie never changes, the slices do.

~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

~ John Medina

Never sacrifice your children for the bigger house, fancier car or the 'better life'. The price you pay is hefty and non-refundable in the end.

~ Sotero M Lopez Ii

I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right.

~ Shauna Niequist

When family really needed you, nothing else mattered.

~ Shannon Stacey

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

~ Crystal Woods

All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

~ Anthony Liccione

Most people like it when the pastor says, family is priority. What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

~ Anthony Liccione

Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don’t tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life.

~ Roshan Sharma

If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.

~ Tim Fargo

I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order. We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..

~ Crestless Wave

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

~ Traci Larussa

When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

~ Tony Curl

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

~ Craig Groeschel

The best way to check what you want is to first imagine that you have nothing and then check if the thing you want really matters to you. Your priorities would change, your wishes would change for sure.

~ Vikrmn