Quotes About Priorities

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

Success is overrated.

My literary success meant nothing to me

I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.