Quotes About Priorities

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

No time for anything, little time for everything

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you're celebrating?

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.