Quotes about Prioritization

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don't concern you!

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. It destroys one's own capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes the work fruitful.

In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.