Quotes about Prioritization

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

To be in this business and be a star, not just be on the card, to be a star puts a demand on your time.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

My kids really still share the one thing that I think is life-changing, and that's eye contact with me. As they've gotten older, I have made it a priority to continue that.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.