Priorities In Life Quotes

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.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

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.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life… The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

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.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

~I’m really clear about my priority in life – it’s being a mom … I love doing films, but I wouldn’t like to do that more than I’d like to be my daughter’s mother.~

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.