Priority Quotes

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  • “My first priority is time with my family.” – Tom Selleck
  • “My family is my number one priority.” – Oren Etzioni
  • “My first priority is trying to protect my family.” – Orlando Bloom
  • “Value your values by demonstrating your values.” – Richie Norton
  • “Make priorities based on your goals and not desires.” ― Nitin Namdeo
  • “Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.” — Zig Ziglar
  • “Schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey
  • “The first step to success is knowing your priorities.” Aspesh
  • “Determine your priorities and focus on them.” Eileen McDargh
  • “Your decisions reveal your priorities.” – Jeff Van Gundy
  • “Make yourself a priority.” Anonymous
  • “Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.” – Scott Caan
  • “You don’t get time. You create time.” – Sanhita Baruah
  • “If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.” – Russian Proverb
  • “Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” – Scottish Proverb
  • “It’s important to show each other your marriage is a priority.” – Zoe Foster Blake
  • “Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.” – Roger Federer
  • “Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same.” – John C. Maxwell
  • “The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.” – David F. Jakielo
  • “Good things happen not by managing time but by prioritizing attention.” – Richie Norton
  • “Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.” ― Harry Lloyd
  • “Raising wages is one of my top priorities.” — Donald Trump
  • “To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.” ― Sarvesh Jain
  • “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” Mark Twain
  • “You always have time for things you put first.” Anonymous
  • “Your priorities are your character.” Anonymous
  • “It’s all about priorities.” Anonymous
  • “If it’s a priority you’ll find a way. If it isn’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
  • “I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.” – Taylor Swift
  • “When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” – Timothy Ferris
  • “Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.” – Gloria Estefan
  • “My children are my priority and always have been.” – Victoria Beckham
  • “Happiness is not a priority for me.I prefer the dangers of being madly in love.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Focus on your priorities before your priorities lose focus on you.” – Sarah Leigh
  • “Thinking changes priorities, Priorities change lives.” – Nitin Namdeo
  • “There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.” Eric Zorn
  • “Priorities will tell you everything you need to know about a person.” Anonymous
  • “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” Margaret Peters
  • “To change your life, you need to change your priorities.” – Mark Twain
  • “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.” – Anthony Robbins
  • “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” – Jack Welch
  • “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” – Stephen Covey
  • “There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep to remember what your priorities are.” – Amy Reed
  • “Subtracting from your list of priorities is as important as adding to it.” – Frank Sonnenberg
  • between people, because that guy’s No. priority is winning, and that guy’s isn’t.” – Jimmy Butler
  • “Never make someone your priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
  • “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.” ― Nita Leland
  • “There are good men out there. There are guys who have their priorities straight, who take care of their kids, who respect their mothers.” ― Pepa
  • “My priority will be making sure my family is happy and settled.” — Michelle Obama
  • “Want to be successful? Change your priorities!” Himmilicious
  • “Be ambitious. Get things done. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and your head up.” Anonymous
  • “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
  • “Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time.” – Roy T. Bennett
  • “Instead of saying ‘I don’t have time’ try saying ‘it’s not a priority,’ and see how that feels.” – Laura Vanderkam
  • “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
  • “Whatever keeps you from reaching your goals today had better be important – it’s costing you a day of your life!” – Nido R. Qubein
  • “I love what I do professionally, I’m really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.” — Victoria Beckham
  • “You won’t change until changing becomes one of your priorities instead of one of your options.” ― Sonya Parker
  • “Only those who are well aware of the instability of life give importance to priorities in life.” ― Nitin Namdeo
  • “Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.” Marilu Henner
  • “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” James E. Faust
  • “A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.” – P. J. O’Rourke
  • “Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.” – Russell M. Nelson
  • “There is no such thing as ‘I do not have the time’. This is all just a matter of priorities.” – Maciej Aniserowicz
  • “The root of productivity is in personal priorities. Know what matters to you and why.” – Melissa Steginus
  • “I exercise a lot, and I love it. I’m fine. But you know, I’d like to be alive in ten years, that’d be my priority.” — Robert Greene
  • “For me having kids, it doesn’t clip your wings, it gives you a different type of adventure to take, like you say you’ve got different priorities.” Helen Skelton
  • “In all planning, you make a list and you set priorities.” Alan Lakein
  • “The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.” – Robert J. McKain
  • “Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” – Dallin H. Oaks
  • “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
  • “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
  • “When you learn how to set priorities, you will have enough sense to differentiate between urgent and important.” ― Nitin Namdeo
  • “Your priorities determine your happiness — place them in order and act on them.” – Francis Shenstone
  • “You need to have sufficient resources against your priorities. Your eyes have to be open every day.” — Michael J. Silverstein
  • “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein
  • “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
  • “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” – H.L. Hunt
  • “Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.” William Arthur Ward
  • “Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels.” Laura Vanderkam
  • “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
  • “There is no one busy in this world, it’s always about priorities. You will always find time for the things you feel important.” Nishan Panwar
  • “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “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
  • “Nobody’s life is ever all balanced. It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.” – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • “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
  • “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 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
  • “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