100 Quotes About Priority

Everyone has a different definition of what’s important in life. Some focus on wealth, while others value independence. Some people have a set path they need to follow, while others are happy living a free lifestyle. Whatever your priorities are, there are always going to be people who disagree with them Read more

But don’t let other people’s opinions dictate your life goals. Find your own path and stick to it. Here are the best quotes about priorities.

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
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Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Richard Feynman
Action expresses priorities.
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Action expresses priorities. Mahatma Gandhi
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it....
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The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. Leo Babauta
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the...
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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
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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. Bruce Lee
When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and...
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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
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The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dusk! When your energy goes down, something goes down. We can do anything with our energy but not all things deserve our true energy! We have, all of us, a choice to choose where our energy must go when day breaks. We can choose to allow anything at all take our energy, but we must not forget that where our energy goes, from there comes something to us; something good or something bad, something mediocre or something noble, something that will disturb us or something that will enhance our joy, latently or visibly, now or tomorrow! We must always remember each day that the same energy that is exerted on wrong things to attract and produce wrong things can be exerted on good things to produce good and great things! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dusk! When your energy goes down, something goes down. We can do anything with our energy but not all things deserve our true energy! We have, all of us, a choice to choose where our energy must go when day breaks. We can choose to allow anything at all take our energy, but we must not forget that where our energy goes, from there comes something to us; something good or something bad, something mediocre or something noble, something that will disturb us or something that will enhance our joy, latently or visibly, now or tomorrow. We must always remember each day that same energy that is exerted on wrong things to attract and produce wrong things can be exerted on good things to produce good and great things!. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Money has the power to get, all that you want....
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Money has the power to get, all that you want. Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want. Akash Lakhotia
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you...
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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. Criss Jami
My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my...
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My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You blast me open and then You stand back and watch My feeble attempts To deal with myself. Where do I turn In my now desperate need for love? You are not there. There is no one else to turn to For I have made you my Everything. And in my exhaustion From my desperate moments, I slip into myself And there I find God waiting for me To love Him to love me to love you Because you are the matchmaker. I thought He was leading me to you But, surprise surprise, You were leading me to Him. Kate McGahan
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And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance... One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father. Michael J. Fox
Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP...
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Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP simply by keeping a strict focus on Time, Objectivity and Prioritising. As simple as that! Sandeep Sahajpal
She was too well-trained to panic.
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She was too well-trained to panic. Steve Sheinkin
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The day you start giving yourself priority and catering to your own needs first, that day everything will fall in place. Most of us were taught (or believed) that taking care of your own needs first is being selfish. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Unless you look after yourself first, how can you look after others? It has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that if you want to help others, you have to take care of your own needs first. No, you are not being selfish by doing that. Charity begins at home- in this case with your own self. You can feed others provided you have enough to eat. More often than not, you are misused if you are nice. You have to compromise many a time to suit needs of others. That way you are seconding yourself to someone else. Stop doing that. You have a right to your needs and a reasonable chance to fulfill them. Demarcate clear boundaries, draw very clear unambiguous lines and stick to them; your personal space should not be violated. If in your relationships you find that all your efforts are concentrated on pleasing others then it is high time you unshackled and freed yourself from their vice like grip or else you will sink into quicksand with no chance of survival. If people don’t like the new you and decide to walk out, don’t stop them, they were never meant to be in your circle. Good riddance. Believe me, you will feel relieved because a very heavy load would have been lifted from your chest. Surround yourself with like-minded people who care for you, respect your individuality, see your value and don’t cross the line. They are people you should stick to- because they are genuine. . Latika Teotia
I'll always choose you. Gabe Willoughby
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I'll always choose you. Gabe Willoughby Hope Collier
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The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can’t remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member. Joe Jordan
Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is...
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Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art...
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Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something. E.a. Bucchianeri
You're not going to get what you want out of...
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You're not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you. Karishma Magvani
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Effective life management isn’t about finding more time to fill; it’s about recognizing you don’t have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a “have to” is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, “No.” We just need to be ready to live with the consequences. Joe Jordan
You need to make time for your family no matter...
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You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life Matthew Quick
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I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done. . Masanobu Fukuoka
Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.
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Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities. Sunday Adelaja
It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick...
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It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them. Sunday Adelaja
Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a...
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Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a time to it and be focused on achieving it. Sunday Adelaja
Time kills essence! Don’t give people reasons to say you...
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Time kills essence! Don’t give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light. Anthony Liccione
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A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with–that’s poverty–but how efficiently we can put first things first... . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) Victoria Moran
Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your...
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Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting Sunday Adelaja
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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 L. Alder
Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my...
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Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics? Craig D. Lounsbrough
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
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Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact. TemitOpe Ibrahim
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Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live. Craig D. Lounsbrough
When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily...
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When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities. Moutasem Algharati
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We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.... Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. Peggy Noonan
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In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feelings. Metaphorically speaking, we are constantly giving birth to priorities; our priorities are perpetually reassessed and we perpetually adjust to accomplish them. Some call this "Change." I call it, improving ourselves by means through the inner self. Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise. Craig D. Lounsbrough
The mark of a great man is one who knows...
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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
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You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital. Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention. Israelmore Ayivor
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Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another. Frank Sonnenberg
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Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. — Madeleine Albright Walter Isaacson
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A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments. Sherry Turkle
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You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will. Steven Magee
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Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter. L.M. Browning
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I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk). Joan Bauer
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There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be. Christopher Ash
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman
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If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values. Suzy Kassem
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It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something. Liane Moriarty
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He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now and the audition. She needed to go to a mountain chalet (somewhere with good acoustics) and live and breathe nothing but music. Go for walks. Meditate. Eat well. Do all those positive-visualization exercises young musicians did these days. She had an awful suspicion that if she were to do this in reality, she might not even miss Sam and the children that much, or if she did miss them, it would be quite bearable. . Liane Moriarty
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Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object–or will be. Unknown
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Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart. Dixie Waters
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Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your staying power, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you — your time Lauren Klarfeld
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You're not a priority if you're an option, you are a percentage. A percentage of that other person's time and effort. The size of the pie never changes, the slices do. Unknown
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The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee. John Medina
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Never sacrifice your children for the bigger house, fancier car or the 'better life'. The price you pay is hefty and non-refundable in the end. Unknown
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I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right. Shauna Niequist
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When family really needed you, nothing else mattered. Shannon Stacey
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At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t. Crystal Woods
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All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished. Anthony Liccione
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Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them. Unknown
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When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other. Anthony Liccione
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Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don’t tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life. Roshan Sharma
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If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life. Tim Fargo
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I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order. We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself.. Crestless Wave
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May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. Traci LaRussa
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When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings. Tony Curl
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You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life. Shannon L. Alder
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The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life. Craig Groeschel
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You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool. Richard Pryor
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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? Unknown
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Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities. Elizabeth George
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So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category–writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents–being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from. Shannon L. Alder
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Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth. Mary E. DeMuth
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A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond. Shannon L. Alder
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Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency. William Shakespeare
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A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level Saji Ijiyemi
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You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority. Richie Norton
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...our ability to achieve our dreams and fulfill our destiny is directly influenced by our thinking. How we think determines our responses, our ability to relate to others, our level of commitment, our priorities, and the dreams we will pursue. Christine Caine
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We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here's the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you'll find the price was worth it. Steve Goodier
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Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now? Shannon L. Alder
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Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment? We are told in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, that the Lord commanded Moses to take myrrh, cinnamon, sweet calamus, cassia, and olive oil, and make a holy ointment for the purpose of anointing the tabernacle, tables, candlesticks and other utensils, as well as Aaron and his sons; saying, at the same time, that whosoever compounded any like it, or whoever put any of it on a stranger, should be put to death. In the same chapter, the Lord furnishes Moses with a recipe for making a perfume, saying, that whoever should make any which smelled like it, should be cut off from his people. This, to me, sounds so unreasonable that I cannot believe it. Why should an infinite God care whether mankind made ointments and perfumes like his or not? Why should the Creator of all things threaten to kill a priest who approached his altar without having washed his hands and feet? These commandments and these penalties would disgrace the vainest tyrant that ever sat, by chance, upon a throne. . Robert G. Ingersoll
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The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones. Jason Mandryk
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Don't ever let the blessings from your hand take my gaze off the beauty of your face or my pursuit of the beating of your heart. B.J. Richardson
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To love is to respect. Mary Mihalic
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships–a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most. Abraham Flexner
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It seems that man has learnednot to seenot to knowfor he's found the potof goldbut lost the rainbow... Barry DeCarli
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And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Randy Komisar
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This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man can’t help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him. Mary Crocker Cook