Priorities Quotes - Page 21

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

Every child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood hunger should be a national priority.

Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.