Quotes about Priorities

Moreover, it might not even be desirable to follow your bliss. Should you quit your job as an accountant, office manager, or salesperson and jump immediately into opera singing, painting, or raising roses because that's what you really love? Normal life would be disrupted if everyone ran around doing only the things they loved. But that is how most people interpreted Campbell's explanation.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.