Quotes About Prioritization

You must be ready to sacrifice your health if you wish to gain wealth. That is simply an unavoidable law of nature.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

by the effective use of one's time.

Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter. Focus on what truly makes you happy.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?

I wish I could," she says apologetically. "But I've only got room in my life for one man. And that's my son.

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.

He knew how to find time to study and to write, to earn his living and to wander idly through the streets he loved; whereas we, who staggered from laziness to frantic activity and back again, wasted our time trying to decide whether we were lazy or industrious

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Sometimes people say to me, "I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents," and so on. I say to them, "There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week.

How do you define a boyfriend? If a boyfriend is the first person you think about when you wake up in the morning and the last face you see before you fall asleep, then I was in love with Jonah. But if a boyfriend had to involve physical chemistry and kissing and sex and stuff, then, no, he wasn't that.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.

Our marvelous electronic devices can seduce us into believing we are hard at work, but we are merely sending and receiving insignificant messages, while the real work goes undone, day after day, week after week, year after year. Real thinking and grappling hurt like hell. That's why so many people avoid it like a root canal.

Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The undisciplined man's attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.

You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money. Everything in life must be an investment

No matter who you are, your progress and success in life will depend, more than any other factor, on how you invest the twenty-four hours you're blessed with each day.