Quotes About Priorities

You can have your excuses or you can have success. You can't have both. Whichever outcome you train your mind on dictates the reality you see before you.

Other people's needs can occupy several lifetimes' worth of our attention, and if you let them, they will.

Kids get so wrapped up in the joy of drawing or pretending or discovering that they'd rarely eat or bathe or sleep if we didn't make them.

You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

this: You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex -- ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

By the way, honey, you look wonderful. You've lost so much weight! What diet are you on?" I stop in the doorway, breathe in through my nose, out through my mouth. "I'm caring for a dying man, Mother. A dying man you haven't asked me about once since I stepped foot in here, or even called to say hello. Somehow, I've lost my appetite.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

I don't need the bowls to give me peace anymore," Ian said. "I have you. And Jamie, and Belle. If all the Ming bowls in the world were smashed, I'd still have you." [...] "You broke the bowl, and it is gone. But you are here, and whole. Nothing else matters.

But—but he is your friend!" "So he is. But there are limits to everything. I will not share you with any man, Félicité, either physically or mentally.

There are only so many hours in the day, and chances are that if you have a successful career it's your job that takes up most of them. As the economy flourishes are we in the grip of an emotional recession? Have we made our jobs the primary relationships in our lives, settling for a so-so boyfriend because that's all we have the time to either find or maintain?

They gave their hearts to their businesses, not their wives; that's why they were all so damned rich.

Astrid's eyes widened. 'What happened?' she asked quietly. Becca arched an eyebrow. 'Suddenly you care?' 'Yeah, Becca, I do. A lot.

You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.

Years ago, when Sasha and I were struggling with Lincoln, my habit of "fleeing" to my clinic almost cost me my marriage. Since then, I've subjected my impulses to leave for work to a three-step protocol: 1) Is it necessary that I go at this moment? 2) Is there something at home that I want to avoid? 3) Will I be letting anyone down by leaving right now?

Sorry," I said. "They're great, but you know. The world doesn't revolve around breasts." "Listen to you!" Curly shouted. "Of course the world revolves around breasts! What else would it revolve around?

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

My people are crumbling and dying and starving, and you're blessing blessed people and serving the saved.

prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .

And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.

I'm not Team Gale or Team Peeta. I'm Team Katniss...the core story in the Hunger Games trilogy has less to do with who Katniss ends up with and more to do with who she is - because sometimes, in books and in life, it's not about the romance. Sometimes, it's about the girl.

Before I liked cars, yachts, having a door to lock, and you. :)

If I told you that someone wanted revenge against Hawthorne Family-" Nan patted the side of his face. "I'd tell that person to get in line.