You should make a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day, because good things will happen when you get your priorities straight. Inspirational priorities quotes will motivate you to prioritize the important things in your life so that you can be successful at anything in life.
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Most Famous Priority Quotes
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. ― Stephen R. Covey
To change your life, you need to change your priorities. ― Mark Twain
When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. ― Anthony Robbins
Action expresses priorities. ― Mahatma Gandhi
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
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ― Sidney Howard
Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously. ― Ana Monnar
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. ― Steve Jobs
There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. ― Brian Tracy
I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending – they’re shifting. ― Brendan Fraser
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ― Charles Bixton
A man must be defined by his priorities, not by his desires. His actions define his priorities. ― Anonymous
Priorities over conveniences. ― Jatain Neha
Good things happen when you set your priorities straight. ― Scott Caan
Become a priority in your life. ― Anonymous
Your decisions reveal your priorities. ― Jeff Van Gundy
Change your priorities and you change your life. It’s that simple. ― Anonymous
Schedule your priorities. ― Stephen Covey
For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is a top priority, and we believe that carrying this issue could challenge that priority. ― Beth Bingham
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you. ― Marilu Henner
Be ambitious. Get things done. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and your head up. ― Anonymous
Have self-respect… never allow anyone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. ― Anonymous
Your priorities are your character. ― Anonymous
I feel my family’s needs are a priority. I’m not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family. ― Susan Sarandon
The first step to success is knowing your priorities. ― Aspesh
I hate when people say they’re too busy. It’s such a b*llsh*t excuse. Like no, it’s all about priorities. I’m busy too but I make you a priority in my life while I’m just an option in yours. ― Anonymous
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. ― Taylor Swift
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. ― William Arthur Ward
I stopped feeling special when I realizes I wasn’t your number one Priority. ― Anonymous
I’m not expecting you to make me your priority. I was just hoping you’d be there when I need you around me. ― Anonymous
Want to be successful? Change your priorities! ― Himmilicious
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities. ― Karen Duffy
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. ― Margaret Peters
Instead of saying ‘I don’t have time’ try saying ‘it’s not a priority,’ and see how that feels. ― Laura Vanderkam
There is no one busy in this world, it’s always about priorities. You will always find time for the things you feel important. ― Nishan Panwar
It hurts to know that even though you like me, still I’m not your priority. ― Joanne Lobedica
Often in life, we forget the things we should remember, and remember the things we should forget. ― Anonymous
It’s not an issue of wants vs. Needs. It’s an issue of wants vs. Priorities. ― Anonymous
If it’s a priority, you’ll find a way. If it isn’t, you’ll find an excuse. ― Jim Rohn
My family is my number one priority. ― Georgina Chapman
Inspirational Priorities Quotes
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. ― Mariska Hargitay
No one is always busy. It just depends on what number you are on their priority list. ― Anonymous
Determine your priorities and focus on them. ― Eileen McDargh
People don’t change, their priorities do. ― Anonymous
It’s all about priorities. ― Anonymous
Priorities, when someone tells you are too ‘busy’ … It’s not a reflection of their schedule; It’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule. ― Dr. Steve Maraboli
You always have time for things you put first. ― Anonymous
Sometimes we outgrow people you’re not a bad person. It happens. It just means that your Priorities have changed. ― Anonymous
There’s nothing like busy, It’s all about priorities. ― Anonymous
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink, priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want. ― Kristin Armstrong
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Make yourself a priority. ― Anonymous
Priorities will tell you everything you need to know about a person. ― Anonymous
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ― Walt Whitman
In all planning, you make a list and you set priorities. ― Alan Lakein
Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. ― Brian Tracy
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities. ― Stephen Covey
Anyone that truly cares about you will never put you last on their list. You would be a priority in their life. ― Anonymous
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ― Marianne Williamson
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ― Russian Proverb
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom in life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ― Lin Yu Tang
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. ― Sheri L. Dew
Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own. ― Nirmala Srivastava
What you prioritize defines your life. ― BossBabe
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ― H. L. Hunt
Quotes About Priorities
Let us reflect on what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. ― Dalai Lama
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. ― Dallin H. Oaks
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ― John Wooden
Your priorities aren’t what you say they are. They are revealed by how you live. ― Anonymous
Do the duty which lies nearest to you. The second duty will then become clearer. ― Thomas Carlyle
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ― Dale Carnegie
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. ― John C. Maxwell
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. ― Stephen Covey
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
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Washington Thurman
Family time is not a matter of convenience. It is a matter of priority. ― Anonymous
Focus on what is most important. Find what truly matters to you. Realign your life with new priorities. Find a new vision, new goals, and a clearer path. Everything else will begin to fall away. ― Akiroq Brost
Productivity refers to both the action and the result of a process that centres on assessing one’s priorities and then acting on them. ― Melissa Steginus
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ― George Bernard Shaw
There is no such thing as ‘I do not have the time’. This is all just a matter of priorities. ― Maciej Aniserowicz
Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Getting to the top should be a priority but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus. ― Anonymous
Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. ― Jonathon Porritt
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. ― Warren Buffett
There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep to remember what your priorities are. ― Amy Reed
I haven’t got time for a love life and that’s usually frustrating to the would-be lovers. Care to make a run for it? ― Benjamin R. Smith
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ― Stephen Covey
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ― Mahatma Gandhi
Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. ― Roy T. Bennett
If you continually ask yourself, ‘What’s important now ― you won’t waste time on the trivial. ― Lou Holtz
My first priority is time with my family. ― Tom Selleck
If you truly feel that self-esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been. ― Shannon Alder
It’s important to show each other your marriage is a priority. ― Zoe Foster Blake
If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life. ― Rick Warren
It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible. ― Plato
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. ― Bruce Lee
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. ― Theodore Parker
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class. ― Sinclair Lewis
Motivational Quotes On Priorities
Know what matters most to you and be unwilling to compromise those priorities at almost any price. ― Frank Sonnenberg
We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. ― Andy Stanley
Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same. ― John C. Maxwell
Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? ― Shannon L. Alder
It’s never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority. ― Jennie Garth
Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority. ― Joseph B. Wirthlin
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. ― Tim Ferriss
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things. ― Jim Rohn
Living in light of eternity changes your priorities. ― Rick Warren
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ― Lucille Ball
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ― Anonymous
Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others. ― Oprah Winfrey
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. ― Zig Ziglar
My son is my routine and priority, period! ― Cory Hardrict
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. ― Mark Twain
Never let anyone be your priority if you are only their option. ― Anonymous
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ― Maya Angelou
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. ― Robert Genn
Nobody’s life is ever all balanced. It’s a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day. ― Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ― Albert Einstein
Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged. ― Penney Peirce
Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people area able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack. ― John C. Maxwell
Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important. ― Charles E. Hummel
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ― Robert Louis Stevenson
Know Your Priorities Quotes
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ― Criss Jami
Priorities lead to prosperity. ― Michelle Singletary
Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone. ― Lisa Genova
Priority is a function of context. ― Stephen R. Covey
Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
Self-care is never a selfish act — it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. ― Parker Palmer
Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first. ― Frank Bettger
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is. ― Richard P. Feynman
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. ― Tahir Shah
Self-love is making your physical, mental & emotional health a priority. ― Anonymous
She’s not looking for money, status or gifts. She desires honesty, loyalty and being a man’s priority. ― Anonymous
Small to greater matters must give way. ― William Shakespeare
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ― Albert Einstein
Sometimes when you’re overwhelmed by a situation – when you’re in the darkest of darkness – that’s when your priorities are reordered. ― Phoebe Snow
Subtracting from your list of priorities is as important as adding to it. ― Frank Sonnenberg
Sweetheart, the right guy will make you a priority. If you find yourself feeling like you’re not good enough, it’s because he’s not good enough. ― Steve Maraboli
The Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him. ― D.A. Carson
The greatest reflection of your priorities is your time. Whatever you say about what matters to you, the true test is where you place your time. ― Nick Crocker
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. ― Leo Babauta
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
The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life. ― David F. Jakielo
The necessary has never been man s top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. ― Eric Hoffer
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
The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time. ― Lloyd Alexander
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first. ― Steven Pressfield
The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. ― Robert J. McKain
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest. ― Bob Hawke
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world. ― Elisabeth Elliot
There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers. ― Dennis Lehane
There are three things in life that leave and never return; words, time and opportunities. Therefore, value who values you and don’t treat as a priority whoever treats you as an option. ― Anonymous
There is a big difference between ‘CAN’T’ and ‘it just isn’t a high priority. ― Anonymous
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status – but rarely for your wisdom. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those who enter into marriage should be fully prepared to establish their marriage as the first priority in their lives. ― James E. Faust
To end my life having exhausted the whole of it in the pursuit of worldly things means that I will die holding no things. But to exhaust the whole of it in the pursuit of God means that I will die holding all things. And the difference between the two is everything. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. ― Lee Iacocca
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ― M. Scott Peck
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ― Scottish Proverb
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. ― Martin Luther King
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. ― Stephen Covey
Whatever keeps you from reaching your goals today had better be important – it’s costing you a day of your life! ― Nido R. Qubein
When it comes to relationships, remaining faithful is never an option but a priority. Loyalty is everything. ― Anonymous
When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well. ― Shannon L. Alder
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. ― Ezra Taft Benson
When we’re forced to do something, suddenly the time is there. Which means it s there all the time, but we ve just chosen to limit ourselves by believing that it isn’t. ― Jen Sincero
Setting Priority Quotes
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. ― Oprah Winfrey
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
You do the things that need to be done according to priority. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
You have the option to not to be their option. Only accept priority positions. ― Sonya Parker
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage? Pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say? no to other things. ― Stephen R. Covey
You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life. ― Matthew Quick
You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority. ― Nita Leland
You put your time where your priority is. ― Sebastian Faulks
You won’t change until changing becomes one of your priorities instead of one of your options. ― Sonya Parker
Your behavior reflects your actual purposes. ― Ronald Heifetz
Your choices will not all be between good and evil. Many will be choices between two good options. Not all truths are created equal, so you will need to establish priorities. ― Russell M. Nelson
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. ― Marcus Aurelius
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ― Rumi
