Quotes About Priorities

Overload is a condition of our hearts. It's the result of following our own to-do list rather than God's.

Given the chance, others will set our priorities for us. Yet God specifically has a calling for each of us that will only come from Him. To discern this, we need wisdom. Without God's wisdom, we make decisions on facts and feelings. To find wisdom, I need to silence the demands of many, to hear the commands of One.

We'll never find peace when the demands on our time and energy exceed our capacity.

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Tudo nessa vida acaba em bagatela e aquele que, para agradar aos outros se mata trabalhando por dinheiro, honras ou o que for, sem que a isso o mova sua própria paixão ou necessidade, é, com certeza, um tolo.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

Lunch is for wimps.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.

As God sacrificed His Son, so we follow and give even those things that are most precious to us in our personal worlds: our time, our convenience, our creature comforts.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

After a while, Dad went off to Spain, and I didn't see him for many years. I was too busy trying to make a success of my life, but even if I hadn't been working every hour God sent, I had no real wish to see him.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.

Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.

What gown and what head-dress she should wear on the occasion became her chief concern. She cannot be justified in it. Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim...

UNIVERSITY... In the great American universities men are ranked as follows: 1. Seducers; 2. Fullbacks; 3. Boozefighters; 4. Pitchers and Catchers; 5. Poker players; 6. Scholars...

Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.