Quotes About Prioritization

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.

The time for falling in love was when you were emotionally available and free of cares, when it didn't matter what time you came home or how late you were getting up the next day. When you had hours and hours to spend gazing into each other's eyes and even longer hours making love, uninterrupted. If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love…it'll never happen.

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

The one thing she didn't teach me because I was always in a rush was to stick around. I was always getting laid on the run.

quiddling' (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).

You can't love everyone. We're already lucky to love the ones we love.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

But at the moment, I excuse myself from thinking about even those I love most. I think only of me. And what lies ahead.

I heard Coin say, "I told you we should have rescued the boy first." Meaning Peeta. I couldn't agree more. He would've been an excellent mouthpiece.

Katniss will choose whoever she thinks she can't live without.

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us

You don't matter, Dallas," he says seriously. "You don't matter the way she does and you know it. I love her. And that's all I'm going to say about it.

I'm going to kick his ass for touching you," he growls. "And for wrecking my bike." "I'm glad I came first in that sentence." "Baby, you always come first.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.