Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. — Gary Keller
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
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. — John Carmack
Pick one thing to change, make it your number one priority, and see it through before you move on to the next. — Jay Shetty
The third principle is to resist the allure of middling priorities. — Oliver Burkeman
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. — Stephen Covey
Do first things first, and second things not at all. — Peter Drucker
Always prioritize your needs over your wants. For example, you need a car to get to work, you want a BMW. Know the difference. — Jaspreet Singh
Short Setting Priorities Quotes
Dissect how you spend your time. It reveals your priorities. — Tom Bilyeu
Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will. — Greg McKeown
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. — Zig Ziglar
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. — Dallin H. Oaks
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder. — Tim Ferriss
Carefully choose what to care about. — Mark Manson
Every successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do. — Angela Duckworth
In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last. — Rick Rubin
Focus is essential for a productive life. — Lex Fridman
Setting Priorities Image Quotes
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Setting Your Priorities Quotes
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
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
Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities. — Elizabeth George
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them. — Robert J. Mckain
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. — Robert J. Mckain
Priorities Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
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
Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J. R. D. Tata
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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
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
Life Priorities Quotes
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
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
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
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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
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 to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
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
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
Time And Priorities Quotes
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing. — Naval Ravikant
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. — John C. Maxwell
We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time. — Emma Bunton
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Time is our most precious asset. When you're young, you are literally a 'time billionaire'—rich with time. Too many people fail to realize the value of this asset until it is gone. Treat time as your ultimate currency—it’s all you have and you can never get it back. — Sahil Bloom
When we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us. — Mark Manson
Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships. — Doreen Virtue
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. — Stephen Covey
My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time. — Drew Brees
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. — Manmohan Singh
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend. — Lee Kuan Yew
Priorities In Life Quotes
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
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
The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be. — Harry Lloyd
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
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
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
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. — Lin Yutang
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
Top Priorities Quotes
I believe that Elon Musk understands this important dynamic. For goodness sake, one of his top priorities is saving the planet. — Cathie Wood
If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities – with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole – is a good place to start. — Gad Saad
The people of the UAE, and striving to empower them, always has been and continues to be our nation’s top priority. Their happy lives remain the basis of all our future plans. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' — Haile Gebrselassie
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. — William Arthur Ward
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. — Vincente Fox
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. — Vicente Fox
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord. — Larry Crabb
People's Priorities Quotes
A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. — Lindsay Wagner
My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.' — Geoffrey Rush
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success. — Richard Branson
Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that. — Bill O'Reilly
There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son. — John Arnott
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. — Jim Carrey
The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority. — Russ Carnahan
Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities. — Rebecca Lobo
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. — Peter Mandelson
It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching. — Joe Buck
Priorities And Responsibilities Quotes
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
The world doesn’t know your purpose or priorities and isn’t responsible for them-you are. – Gary Keller — Gary Keller
My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it. — Will Estes
The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period. — Carolyn Murphy
Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously. — Ana Monnar
An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty. — Richard Branson
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual. — Jimmy Carter
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority. — D. H. Lawrence
I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance. — Amy Hardie
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students. — Andrew Card
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
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
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy. — Benjamin Mkapa
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
What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project. — Kris Kidd
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
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger. — George W. Bush
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success. — Denis Waitley
I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff. — LaVell Edwards
Simply stated, testimony-real testimony, born of the Spirit and confirmed by the Holy Ghost-changes lives. It changes how you think and what you do. It changes what you say. It affects every priority you set and every choice you make. — M. Russell Ballard
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities. — Karen Duffy
In all planing you make a list and you set priorities. — Alan Lakein
I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education. — Rod Blagojevich
I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide them with a compass for navigating life, a general, flexible, framework to set priorities, and a set of techniques to achieve serenity and equanimity. — Massimo Pigliucci
We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful. — Dallin H. Oaks
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. — Patty Murray
People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine. — Herb Kelleher
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. — Benjamin Carson
True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone. — Rick Bayan
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. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. — John Berger
When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies. — Mark Kirk
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways. — Robert Kagan
Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about. — Tim Pawlenty
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more. — Boris Johnson
Leadership is a team sport - learning to work with others is a critical skill. This means articulating a clear vision, setting priorities, giving coaching, getting coaching and learning to seek advice from the team. All these activities — Robert S. Kaplan
In a Donald Trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. But unlike Barack Obama administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement. — Donald Trump
I would like to have a Europe that has a strong foreign and defense policy, ensures economic growth and is active in addressing the issues of the refugee crisis. But perhaps not one that imposes new regulations on allergens that requires food menus to be changed everywhere. When that happens, it creates the feeling that the wrong priorities are being set. — Sebastian Kurz
I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority. — Reggie Watts
In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. — Donald Trump
When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything. — Tim Schafer
My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them. — Trista Sutter
Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved directly in the process of running the university and in the setting of priorities. — Henry Rosovsky
They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges. — John McCain
My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities. — Duncan Jones
If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions. — David Suzuki
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