Priority Principles: Quotes for Finding Balance and Purpose

Welcome to “Priority Perspectives,” your go-to source for insightful quotes on priorities. Discover a curated collection of inspiring words that illuminate the importance of setting meaningful goals and balancing life’s demands. Whether seeking wisdom on focus, decision-making, or life balance, our quotes offer clarity and motivation to align your priorities with purpose. Explore and prioritize wisely with us!

First Priority Quotes

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

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.

Action expresses priorities.

The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.

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

The future depends on what you do today.

Don’t let the things that matter least, get in the way of the things that matter most.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Your decisions reveal your priorities

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

You don’t need to live to fulfill other’s expectations. Live for yourself, love yourself and do not let them tell you that it is selfish. – Mridula Singh

In fact, if you want to attract success, you will have to put yourself first. You can’t take care of anyone else until you take care of yourself. – Talane Miedaner

Put yourself first and everyone benefits. – Jim Karas

Find yourself first, like yourself first, love yourself first and friendship and love will naturally find you. – Mandy Hale

Always put yourself first – never compromise on your own happiness in order to make someone else happy. – Hayley Mulenda

It’s important to put yourself first from time to time. It’s not selfish-it’s actually going to put you in a better position to give to others. – Carley Centen

It’s not selfish to put yourself first when you create your life. When you take time for yourself you make everything around you better. – Tori Anderson

The first key, the key to unlocking your universe is to put yourself first. – Connie Cash

When you decide to put yourself first, you make a choice to live authentically. You can nurture yourself, which in turn gives back more to the world. As you become the priority, you start to make choices based on what is right for you at that moment, not what is right for the rest of the world. – Michelle Zawaski

Putting yourself first is a matter of knowing when to do it and when you need it most. – Susan Smith Blakely

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck

When you prioritize yourself, everything else will fall into its place. – Rachel Jo

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make happiness a priority. It’s necessary. – Mandy Hale

When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do. – John O’Donohue

Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody. Therefore, it is imperative that you tend to your joy first. People are responsible for their own joy. When you tend to your joy and do what makes you feel good, you are a joy to be around and you are a shining example to every child and every person in your life. When you are feeling joy, you don’t even have to think about giving. It is a natural overflow. – Rhonda Byrne

Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them. – Kristi Ling

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

Taking care of yourself is part of taking care of others. – Jennifer Williamson

Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.

When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up. – Germany Kent

I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work. – Charlize Theron

If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself. – Gabrielle Union

Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don’t, at least one person in the world is treating you well: you. – Carrie Hope Fletcher

People pleasing and putting others first literally diminished my mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being. Overwhelmingly, most emotionally wounded people demonstrate this trait. Many of us have been programmed to put others first; to be of service to others before we serve ourselves. – Christopher Dines

When you start sacrificing yourself for other people, you make them a thief, because they are stealing from you what you need and they don’t even know it. – Iyanla Vanzant

Don’t wait for a crisis to realize what matters most. Put yourself first right now. Because right now is all we have. – Brittany Burgunder

When you care for yourself first, the world will also find you worthy of care. – Haemin Sunim

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. – Deborah Day

Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. – Roy T. Bennett

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you. – Marilu Henner

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts. – Mariska Hargitay

If you continually ask yourself, ‘What’s important now’ then you won’t waste time on the trivial. – Lou Holtz

When someone tells you they are too busy. It’s not a reflection of their schedule, it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule. – Steve Maraboli

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. – Robert J. McKain

Deadlines aren’t bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it. – Harvey Mackay

The first step to success is knowing your priorities. – Aspesh

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first. – Steven Pressfield

There is no such thing as ‘I do not have the time’. This is all just a matter of priorities. – Maciej Aniserowicz

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. – William Arthur Ward

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it–then I can achieve it. – Muhammed Ali

The most important thing is to enjoy your life. To be happy is all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things. – Jim Rohn

Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first. – Frank Bettger

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. – Margaret Peters

Productivity refers to both the action and the result of a process that centers on assessing one’s priorities and then acting on them. – Melissa Steginus

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage-pleasantly, smilingly, unapologetically, 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 thegood. – Stephen Covey

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest. – Bob Hawke

In the end, these things matter most. How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? – Buddha

Do the duty which lies nearest to you. The second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. – Robin Norwood

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink, prioritize, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want. – Kristin Armstrong

There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep to remember what your priorities are. – Amy Reed

In all planning, you make a list and you set priorities. – Alan Lakein

Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important. – Charles E. Hummel

No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. – Robert Genn

It’s important to know what really matters in life. Your sanity; your health; your family; and the ability to start anew. – Les Brown

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. – Timothy Ferris

The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life. – David F. Jakielo

Respect And Priorities Quotes

Instead of saying ‘I don’t have time’ try saying ‘it’s not a priority,’ and see how that feels. – Laura Vanderkam

To change your life, you need to change your priorities. – Mark Twain

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. – Taylor Swift

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you. – Marilu Henner

The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life. – David F. Jakielo

Focus on your priorities before your priorities lose focus on you. – Sarah Leigh

Your priorities determine your happiness – place them in order and act on them. – Francis Shenstone

Having priorities is essential. So is having them in the right order. – Michael Hyatt

The root of productivity is in personal priorities. Know what matters to you and why. – Melissa Steginus

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. – Scott Caan

It’s not weak to stand by the person you love when they’re trying to fix a big mistake, and it’s not weak to decide to put yourself first. – Sylvia Day

You have to be self-interested in order to be selfless. You have to put yourself first if you want to be of use to other people. – Rachel Bartholomew

It’s not selfish, but selfless to be first, to be as good as possible to you, to take care of you, to keep you whole and healthy, that doesn’t mean that you disregard everything and everyone, but you gotta keep your cup full. – Iyanla Vanzant

You always have to remember to take care of you first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself, you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others. – Jada Pinkett Smith

To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first. – Lorii Myers

If you want to have enough to give to others, you will need to take care of yourself first. A tree that refuses water and sunlight for itself can’t bear fruit for others. – Emily Maroutian

Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It’s not selfish, it’s necessary. – Keysha Jade

Don’t wait for a crisis to realize what matters most. Put yourself first right now. Because right now is all we have. – Brittany Burgunder

You matter. You are visible. You are wanted. You are needed. You are appreciated. Your life makes a difference. – Dr. Gayle Joplin Hall

Do something good for yourself today. You matter. – Virginia Madsen

You were seen, you were heard, and you matter. – Oprah Winfrey

You matter! You might be but one drop in a bigger ocean, but even that drop causes ripples which affect every other drop. – Sue Krebs

You matter. How you feel matters. What you say, do, and think matters. It all matters. – Richelle E. Goodrich

The biggest lie we fall for is that it doesn’t matter. Your opinion doesn’t matter. Your existence doesn’t matter. You don’t matter. It is the worst, most destructive lie we ever believe, and in consequences, it wreaks extensive damage to more lives than your own. Don’t fall for that evil lie. Don’t forget that everything about you absolutely does matter. – Richelle E. Goodrich

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green

You matter. You are good enough. You are loved.

You are living. You occupy space. You have a mass. You matter. – Albert Einstein

You matter to somebody, even if you don’t know it yet. – Unknown

Sweetheart, marry your goals, remain committed to success, be loyal to your dreams. It’s okay to choose yourself. – R.H. Sin

When you choose yourself first you show the world what you truly deserve. – Dhiman

Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialized to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it’s this incredible path you can forge for yourself. – Rebecca Traister

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself. – Tyler Kent White

You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to, self love is choosing yourself and choosing yourself is self care. You’re entertaining the wrong things with the wrong people because you’re struggling with loving yourself. It’s okay to take a break, a moment for yourself. It’s okay to be selfish if it means rediscovering your own power and happiness. – R. H. Sin

It’s called choosing yourself, not earning yourself. – Z.V.

To the woman reading this with a tired soul and a restless heart I hope you find the courage to choose yourself. – R.H. Sin

Choose yourself. Choose what is best for your heart. And the right people will come. The love that you deserve, will stay.

By choosing yourself first you are giving other people the permission to set boundaries and make themselves a priority too. – Caitlin Gibson

To change your life, you need to change your priorities. – Mark Twain

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

When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. – Anthony Robbins

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities. – Myles Munroe

Think of your priorities, not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. – Dan Millman

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.- Bruce Lee

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

I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending – they’re shifting. – Brendan Fraser

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. – Scott Caan

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. – Sidney Howard

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.- Steve Jobs

We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. – S. Truett Cathy

Priorities over conveniences. – Jatain Neha

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.- Dallin H. Oaks

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself. – Denis Waitley

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. – Marcus Aurelius

Your decisions reveal your priorities. – Jeff Van Gundy

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you. – Robert Greene

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. – Brian Tracy

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary. – Mandy Hale

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. – Charles Bixton

Sometimes when you’re overwhelmed by a situation – when you’re in the darkest of darkness – that’s when your priorities are reordered. – Phoebe Snow

Be ambitious. Get things done. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and your head up.

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. – Leo Babauta

Your priorities are your character.

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that’s when we will flourish in those areas. – Victoria Osteen

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

If your No. priority isn’t winning, and people can tell? That’s the battle. Now there’s a problem between people, because that guy’s No. priority is winning, and that guy’s isn’t. – Jimmy Butler

I do know that when I am , I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age – Warren Buffett

We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. – Andy Stanley

Value your values by demonstrating your values. – Richie Norton

Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same. – John C. Maxwell

The way one uses the money now is a reflection of his or her life philosophy pertaining to core values and priorities. What will differ during scarcity or abundance thereof is the amounts but never the proportions. – Lucas D. Shallua

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. – Gloria Steinem

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. – James Cash Penney

May you always value the simple little things in Life. For they make a big difference and hence are the most important. – Omar Cherif

Remember you must always put your country first, your family second, and yourself third. – Prince Serge Oblensky

Focus on your priorities before your priorities lose focus on you. – Sarah Leigh

Good things happen not by managing time but by prioritizing attention. – Richie Norton

Whatever keeps you from reaching your goals today had better be important – it’s costing you a day of your life! – Nido R. Qubein

Your priorities determine your happiness – place them in order and act on them. – Francis Shenstone

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

Quotes On Priorities In Love

I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.” – Charlize Theron

Make your relationship your number one priority – Lisa Ling

Never make someone your priority when all you are to them is an option. – Maya Angelou

For honest insight into who you are, don’t ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week. – Robert Reed

As priority changes love changes. – Tashiya

Love is my first priority, all others may vary. – J M Gharst

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. – Mark Twain

You are a priority. Not an option, last resort, or toy. Don’t allow anyone to treat you like anything less. – Ritu Ghatourey

Your worth to others depends on how you value yourself, don’t be an option to someone, be there priority. – Blaze Olamiday

Treat me like an option, I’ll make forgetting you my priority. Treat me like a queen and I’ll make you feel like a king. – Chardonnay Tyson

How can I let you be a priority in my life, when I’m still an option in your life? – Hussein Nishah

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice. Valerie Jarrett

If they aren’t making you a priority don’t make them a priority. – Sonya Parker

Choose the option that will give you long term happiness instead of the option that will only give you temporary pleasure. – Sonya Parker

Love is a priority.True love is being a priority. – Ananya Aggarwal

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority.It’s necessary. – Mandy Hale

When someone tells you they are too busy.It’s not a reflection of their schedule, it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule. – Steve Maraboli

If you have to ask where you stand chances are you’re not a priority because if you were you’d know it. – Sonya Parker

Stop feeding connections that don’t feed you.Stop spending so much time filling others, while you starve of love. You are deserving too. – Billy Chapata

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you’ll be fit to face anything. – Jay Woodman

Look for people in your life that who will help calm the storms in your soul rather than challenge it to a battle. Peace should always be your first priority.in your life. – Timothy Pina

I’m more than just an option; refuse or be forgotten. – Drake

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. – Jess C. Scott(The intern)

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. – J. K. Rowling(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway

Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.- Oscar Wilde

Don’t settle for being an option; become a priority. – Matt Mitchell

If they keep coming back to you, it isn’t love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale. – Shannon L. Alder

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means. – Henry Youngman

Priorities are not about including essential but removing inessential. – Nitin Namdeo

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it’s the most important part. The Bible says, Let love be your greatest aim. – Rick Warren

If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married. – Joseph Campbell

Love simply is – it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there’s no other option. – Stephanie Laurens

Know what matters most to you and be unwilling to compromise those priorities at almost any price. – Frank Sonnenberg

You shouldn’t marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won’t work. – Nicole Ari Parker

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success. – Taylor Lautner

There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.- Eric Zorn

It hurts to know that even though you like me, I’m still not your priority. – Joanne Lobedica

If you become too readily available to people, they begin to take you for granted; pull away, and they will clamor for you. – Dara Reidyr

The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs. – Shannon L. Alder

She questioned her own beauty because of him he left scars on her self esteem… – r.h. sin

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. – Alan Cohen

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse – obviously, something is wrong. – Laura Schlessinger

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priority than your relationships. Love is what gives meanings to life – Dave Willis

Be with someone who won’t make poor excuses for their lack of effort. – Kristie May

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship. – Amelia Earhart

In a relationship,no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. – John Mark Green

If someone makes you feel like you’re asking for too much, leave them. – R.H. Sin

The moment you discover he doesn’t want the same thing you want, let him go. – Steve Harvey

Unrequited love differs from mutual love, just like delusion differs from the truth. – George Sand

Even the most intense feelings cease when neglected and taken for granted. – Anupama Garg

If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. – Robert Goolrick

Never beg for someone’s time, commitment, affection, and attention. Never beg someone to stay with you when you need him the most. – E.J Cenita

Life’s a prison when you’re in love alone. – Usher

Problem can be fixed. But unrequited love is a tragedy. – Suzanne Harper

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

Always putting others first creates deep resentment, destroys your happiness, and is unsustainable. Putting yourself first allows you to meet your needs in the most skillful way. This, in turn, increases your happiness, joy, and capacity to love, so you can give freely and create healthy relationships. – Aziz Gazipura

Quotes On Priority Changes

Your priorities change when you realize what you need versus what you want.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. – Roy E. Disney

The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes you have to forget what you want to remember what you deserve.

You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

The more you say ‘no’ to the unnecessary, the more you can say ‘yes’ to the essential.

Don’t prioritize your schedule; schedule your priorities.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. – Russian Proverb

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. – Kin Hubbard

Saying ‘no’ to the wrong things frees up space to say ‘yes’ to the right things.

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. – Louise Smith

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau

You can’t do everything at once, but you can do something at once. – Zig Ziglar

Focus on being productive instead of being busy. – Tim Ferriss

The more you give away, the more comes back to you.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

You are not what you own, but what you do with what you own.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. – Charlie Munger

What consumes your mind controls your life.

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not. – Cal Newport

Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.

Your priorities aren’t what you say they are. They are revealed by how you live.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. – Tahir Shah

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority. – Russell M. Nelson

Do first things first, and second things not at all. – Peter Drucker

The problem with the world is that people are busy searching for keys but don’t know the locks that they would open. – Abhaidev

Subtracting from your list of priorities is as important as adding to it. – Frank Sonnenberg

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others. – Oprah Winfrey

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. – Lee Iacocca

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted. – Grant Cardone

The result of taking on too much is that nothing gets done. Or it doesn’t get done well. – Karen Martin

If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you’ll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions. – Archie Manning

The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time. – Lloyd Alexander

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom in life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yu Tang

Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being ‘in’ the moment. – Erik Pevernagie

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Washington Thurman

If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life. – Rick Warren

We know the importance of being healthy but only a few of us are able to manage it. We often have other priorities in life which come in the way of our desire to be healthy. We wish to be successful in life, make lots of money and achieve fame and appreciation in the world. Sometimes, we end up fulfilling these desires by sacrificing our health. – Awdhesh Singh

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck

All we need to decide is what to do with the time has given us… – J.R.R. Tolkien

Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter. – L.M. Browning

If it’s a priority you’ll find a way. If it isn’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn

Instead of sayingI don’t have time try sayingit’s not a priority, and see how that feels. – Laura Vanderkam

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey

You don’t get time. You create time. – Sanhita Baruah

Action expresses priorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities. – Karen Duffy

My first priority is time with my family. – Tom Selleck

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

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. – Stephen Covey

Productivity refers to both the action and the result of a process that centres on assessing one’s priorities and then acting on them. – Melissa Steginus

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. – Dallin H. Oaks

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. – Denis Waitley

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. – Zig Ziglar

It’s important to show each other your marriage is a priority. – Zoe Foster Blake

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It’s a delicate balance. – Jimmy Cliff

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else. – Gloria Estefan

Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first. – Hulk Hogan

I’m quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I’m very family-oriented. It’s a big priority in my life. – Hugh Jackman

My first priority is trying to protect my family. – Orlando Bloom

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life – the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does. – Jamie Foxx

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father. – Roger Federer

My children are my priority and always have been. – Victoria Beckham

Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances. – Sam Altman

My family is my number one priority. – Oren Etzioni

We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place. – Tim McGraw

There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. – Jack Welch

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. – P. J. O’Rourke

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. – Taylor Swift

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.- Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

Want to be successful? Change your priorities! – Himmilicious

Let us reflect on what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. – Dalai Lama

Often in life, we forget the things we should remember, and remember the things we should forget.

The necessary has never been man s top priority.The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. – Eric Hoffer

In a storm, remembering and focusing on our priorities is a matter of survival. – Holly Wagner