Quotes about Prioritization

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.

No matter what else you're involved in, regardless of what else you're doing, make your children a high priority. God has given you an amazing privilege! Say no to other things before you say no to your kids.

You can't be all things to all people.

So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.