Quotes About Prioritization

Servants don't fill up their time with other pursuits that could limit their availability.

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

Im Kampf um den Handtaschenriemen gegen die Türklinke opfere lieber die Handtasche, als der Türklinke das Gefühl zu geben, sie hätte gewonnen.

There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.

That sounds really interesting. I'm working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project?

Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you. He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, I always choose you.

But was it wrong to put yourself first? That's called survival, right? If you're running for your life, you don't get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It's fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork—all for one and one for all—but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn't be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.

I could mentally lift the vision wholesale and stick it into the already overflowing "crazy shit I'll deal with later" box in my brain.

We need to keep going," Daniel said. "We lost a lot of time yesterday." "What? Are we on a schedule?" Hayley said. "Is there a bus waiting to pick us up somewhere?

We'll talk on the way," he said. "We really need to get going, and if Corey's getting a headache--" "It's not bad," Corey interjected. "I'll be--" "You won't be fine. We need to look after that first.

I have things to not do, and not a lot of time to not do them in.

She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.

Sabe que no es posible hacerlo todo, que hay que elegir las batallas que pueden ganarse.

Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]

When this is all over, I told myself, you will hate yourself for wasting so much time . .

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.