These priorities quotes will inspire you. Priorities, something that is more important than other things and that needs to be done or dealt with first.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging priorities quotes, priorities sayings, and priorities proverbs.
Best Priorities Quotes
- “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “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
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“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “To change your LIFE you need to change your PRIORITIES.” ~ John C. Maxwell
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“Action expresses priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.” ~ Mariska Hargitay , Life priorities quotes
- “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” ~ Tim Ferriss
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“It’s not just words. Action expresses priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Decide what your priorities are and how much time you’ll spend on them. If you don’t, someone else will.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.” ~ Scott Caan
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“Your action expresses your priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.” ~ Dan Millman
- “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
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“We determine our Destination by our priorities.” ~ Keith K. Hilbig
- “Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks
- “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” ~ Lin Yutang
- “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.” ~ Tim Ferriss
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“What does it matter how much we do if what we’re doing isn’t what matters most?” ~ Stephen Covey
- “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
- “Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had’, or ‘I’m glad I did.'” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.” ~ Ezra Taft Benson
- “The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
other efforts.” ~ Albert Einstein -
“Priority is a function of context.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” ~ Freya Stark
- “If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? … Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven’t really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].” ~ Stephen Covey
- “Living in light of eternity changes your priorities.” ~ Rick Warren , Change your priorities quotes
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“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” ~ Jonathan Kozol
- “Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” ~ Keri Russell
- “It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.” ~ Doris Lessing
- “If you continually ask yourself, “What’s important now?”, you won’t waste time on the trivial.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.” ~ David Suzuki
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“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “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
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“You do the things that need to be done according to priority.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” ~ Robert W. Service
- “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
- “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” ~ H. L. Hunt
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“Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.” ~ Harry Lloyd
- “The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities” ~ Stephen Covey
- “Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.” ~ Larry Winget
- “We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.” ~ Charles Hummel
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“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.” ~ Taylor Swift
- “Resolve to perform what you ought;
perform without fail what you resolve.” ~ Benjamin Franklin - “Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in ‘getting things done’ is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.” ~ Plato
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“The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.” ~ Columella
- “The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”” ~ Stephen Covey
- “I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.” ~ Chris Christie
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“No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.” ~ Robert Genn
- “No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.” ~ Eric Zorn
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“In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.” ~ Alan Lakein
- “We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- “Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.” ~ Marilu Henner
