Quotes About Priorities

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

There are seven essential behaviors that form the first building block of execution: Know your people and your business. Insist on realism. Set clear goals and priorities. Follow through. Reward the doers. Expand people's capabilities. Know yourself.

Most Americans could retire on what they waste on car loans.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

In no particular order (since vital signs are all equally vital), the five areas we monitor are: •Word • Worship • Witness • Warmth • Works

The fact that you don't have any money is a result of all your other problems. You have thinking problems. Attitude problems. Self-esteem problems. You are lazy. You lack discipline. You lack goals. Your priorities are out of whack. Your biggest problem is not in your wallet or your bank account. Your biggest problem is between your ears. You will fix your money problems when you fix your other problems.

The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Moriría por ti; pero no estoy dispuesto a permitir que tu mueras por mi, y menos por Jack. Christian

Y quizá ese es el problema, y lo ha sido desde el principio: que te importan mucho más los monstruos que las personas. Por eso no tienes inconveniente en dejarlas atrás

Sophie gazed wistfully at their cutoff shorts and tank tops. Once upon a time she, too, had lived in grunge wear. She didn't miss the clothes so much as that time in her life, when she'd had nothing more to do than go to keg parties on weekends and cut class to hang out with her boyfriend. Now both those pursuits seemed worse than trivial—they seemed wasteful. How could a few short years make such a difference in her outlook? She

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Where do you want to live? Do you want to live free and poor and covered in flea welts? Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? Who are you, Virginia? Who are you, really?

I haven't been quite as smart about living as I have been about working. At work, everything was about precision and efficiency, while in my life everything has been about daydreaming, longing, and confusion.

He had not, perhaps, understood that Agatha would mind so much; he might have believed that her independence would sustain her. She had money, a career, Rosalind, Carlo, Madge. She could travel if she wanted to. She had so much more in her life than a husband. That was part of the problem for him, after all: that she had so much else besides him.

You don't become a better parent or employee by not enjoying your life.

Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?