Quotes About Prioritization

You can do everything, but you can't do everything well.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

We must discern what God calls us to accomplish rather than mindlessly adding on everything presented to us.

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

To be great at a few things and experience it, you have to say no to many things.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

But the truth is, we find time for what's important to us.

Loving the One is critically important to finding happiness with your Two. And loving your Two is one of the best ways to love the One.

Everything that we allow into our minds, hearts, and lives — everything that we spend our time and money on — has an impact on how we grow, or don't grow, spiritually.

Here was the conundrum: they could fight elsewhere in 1942, or they could fight in Europe in 1943, but they could probably not do both. They must choose.

Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow.

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

I learned to fight hard and to fight dirty when I was a SEAL. There is nothing I won't do to protect you. No line I won't cross. If you believe nothing else, I say, believe this…you will come first for me.

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love.

I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.