To change your LIFE
you need to change your PRIORITIES. — John C. Maxwell
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier. — Clarence Clemons
Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. — Scott Caan
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. — Chuck Berry
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. — Stephen Covey
Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will. — Greg McKeown
Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.' — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. — Dave Willis
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. — Zig Ziglar
Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. — Gary Keller
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. — Richard G. Scott
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. — Philip Green
Short Priorities In Life Quotes
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account. — Chris Gardner
Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters. — Naval Ravikant
The third principle is to resist the allure of middling priorities. — Oliver Burkeman
It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order. — Kid Rock
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder. — Tim Ferriss
Do first things first, and second things not at all. — Peter Drucker
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. — Brian Tracy
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. — Dallin H. Oaks
The most important thing in life is to have a sense of purpose and meaning. — Jim Simons
In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last. — Rick Rubin
Priorities In Life Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Importance Of Priorities In Life Quotes
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
The first 4-6 hours of my day are dedicated to moving the needle in the important aspects of my life. — Alex Hormozi
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do. — Charles J. Chaput
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar. — Ellen DeGeneres
Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities. — Stedman Graham
Priorities In Your Life Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
If everything in your life feels urgent, it means nothing is. Not everything in life can be a ‘priority’. Master the skill of identifying what really matters & what is truly essential. Start putting your focus and energy there and watch your life start to change. — Rangan Chatterjee
Make sleep your number 1 life priority. It may seem counter-intuitive at first. Once you achieve reliably high quality sleep, you'll wonder how you ever did life before in such a stupor. — Bryan Johnson
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others. — W. A. Criswell
Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in. — Catherine Ponder
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. — Stephen Covey
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married. — Joseph Campbell
If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place. — Joyce Meyer
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. — Sogyal Rinpoche
You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life. — Brian Tracy
Life Priorities Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment. — Derek Prince
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. — Ezra Taft Benson
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important. — Mark Manson
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. — Nicola Sturgeon
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
I know what we’re going to do by the time we’re dead. And it isn’t worth trading that for anything today that could take away from that. — Alex Hormozi
It's insane how much we focus on diet/exercise when what we should be focused on is sleep. We spend 33% of our time on earth sleeping. Make airway health your #1 priority. The other 66% of your life depends on it. — Mark Burhenne
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life – like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth – they all have big opportunity costs. — Mark Manson
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. — Nick Saban
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J. R. D. Tata
Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education? — Craig Kielburger
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions. — Amartya Sen
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority. — W. Edwards Deming
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world. — Brian Armstrong
Setting Priorities Quotes
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you. — Ravi Zacharias
Some individuals require high stakes or external pressure to focus, indicating challenges in setting internal priorities or handling equal weight given to all thoughts. — Gary Brecka
Cleaners do the hardest things first, just to show there’s no task too big. — Tim Grover
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. — John Berger
Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. — Gary Keller
There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. — Alan Thicke
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart. — Quentin Bryce
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that. — Judd Gregg
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people. — Manmohan Singh
Most Important Things In Life Quotes
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity. — Dallas Willard
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. — Frank Zappa
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. — Pierre de Coubertin
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved. — Sri Aurobindo
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. — John Wayne
Important Things In Your Life Quotes
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles. — Sayings
The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself. — Louis C. K.
Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. — Angelina Jolie
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. — Ellen DeGeneres
I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live. — Rosalynn Carter
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place. — Paul Allen
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul. — Mark Hoppus
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? — Shailene Woodley
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed. — Yi Sun-sin
Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be. — Harry Lloyd
Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else. — Sheri L. Dew
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha! — Axl Rose
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. — Lin Yutang
The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life. — Chalene Johnson
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) — Victoria Moran
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. — Leland Ryken
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with. — Myriam Miedzian
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. — Cornel West
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory. — Pope John Paul II
Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities. — Debi Mazar
We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind. — Ingrid Betancourt
People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family. — Dick Vitale
I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices. — Sheena Iyengar
The enemy of the "best" is often the "good." — Stephen Covey
My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately. — Jack LaLanne
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. — Barack Obama
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present. — Mireille Guiliano
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. — Peggy Noonan
I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports. — Julius Erving
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities. — Karen Duffy
I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I
don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both. — Beyonce Knowles
Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now. — Darren Clarke
It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority. — Stephanie Mills
The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives. — Stephen Covey
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