Top Priorities Quotes

• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Basketball, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.75, New World Library

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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Life Changing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.198, Mango Media Inc.

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Priorities In Life, Choices, Desire

  "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

  Scott Caan

  Priorities In Life, Good Things, Happens

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• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

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• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Priorities, Important

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• The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Priorities, Needs, Done

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• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Living in light of eternity changes your priorities.

  Rick Warren

  Light, Priorities, Eternity

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, People, Priorities

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• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Cutting, Goal

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• The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Priorities In Life, Enemy

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.191, Mango Media Inc.

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• Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Business, Work, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

  Charles Hummel

  Time, Focus, Priorities

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• When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

  William Easterly

  Priorities, Digging, Holes

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Good Life, Keys

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Class, Two

  Democratic Debate in Austin, Tex., www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2008.

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