Quotes about Prioritization

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.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

If a woman permits her husband to lose interest in her, and become more interested in other women, it is usually because of her ignorance, or indifference toward the subjects of sex, love, and romance.

Is your heavenly Father getting your best, or is He being forced to settle for leftovers? Leftover time. Leftover service. Leftover money.

Men, you don't have to curse God openly to despise Him. All you need to do is tell Him that you don't think much of Him by giving Him your leftovers.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.