Quotes about Prioritization

Jesus said, "Do not throw your pearls to pigs" (Matt. 7:6). By this we don't think he was calling some people pigs. He was saying, "Look—be careful that you do not give something precious to someone who, at best, cannot recognize its beauty, or at worst, will trample on it." Consider your feminine heart and beauty your treasure, your pearls.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I remember how at night I didn't have slow, sweet talks, but merely rushed the children to bed so I could have more time to myself.

Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.