Quotes About Prioritization

Oh begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises. You may acquire the taste which you have not; what is tedious at first will afterwards be pleasant. Whether you like it or not, read and pray daily. It is for your life! There is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days, and a pretty superficial preacher. Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow: do not starve yourself any longer.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take for them – in every plan, scheme, and arrangement that concerns them – do not leave out that mighty question, "How will this affect their souls?

the very least, speak with God in the morning, before you speak with the world: and speak with God at night, after you have done with the world. But settle it in your minds, that prayer is one of the great things of every day. Do not drive it into a corner. Do not give it the scraps and parings of your duty. Whatever else you make a business of, make a business of prayer.

the old lament he had heard from the first enlisted sailors he had commanded. Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.

If something really bad is going to happen, I want it to be while I'm trying to get something important done, not while I'm running.

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

Invest 10 percent of your income every month. Do not consume more than you earn. Know where your money goes. Strive to be debt-free. Be a good steward of the resources you have been privileged to receive. GOD GIVES EVERY BIRD ITS FOOD But He Does Not Throw It Into The Nest!   MAKE WEALTH A STUDY To help you further, here's

Not being clear about what you want and making other people's needs and desires more important than your own is simply a habit. You can break it by practicing the opposite habit.

Still, he was another guy in the house, and Mom was mine first, and her being my mom is a thousand times more important than her being some guy's girlfriend. So even though Booth wasn't trying to run the show, he was still in the way.

I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life.

It was strange how, when there was nothing else in your life, sex was everything.

Too often people are focused on the "urgent" at the expense of the important.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

If I stop to kick every barking dog, I am not going to get where I'm going.

Take life one basket at a time.

j'aime mieux tes lèvres que mes livres

Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.

You care more about the stupid dance squad than you care about me!" she snapped. "That's not true!" Hannah protested. "The old Hannah would have been excited that the boy I've liked forever is finally asking me to hang out," Caitlin said. "You can't think about anything except dance, dance, dance!

Google puts itself first. So does every other company on the planet. There is no requirement that you have to put yourself second. Indeed, why would you?

Every time you say yes to something you don't want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, "I did it again.

Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

Ensuring that his career, education, or other goals are prioritized

I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption—vain because it is endless—and begin to reread those books that had given me the intensest pleasure in my past.