Priorities First Quotes

#1. Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

Yo Gotti

#2. 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

#3. The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority

Eddie Murphy

#4. When I let go of my own work, my own priorities, I lost the qualities he had been attracted to in the first place. That's how he put it. He loved the woman I was before I was in love with him.

Alexis M. Smith

#5. If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Joyce Meyer

#6. My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

Melissa Bean

#8. Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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

Mason Cooley

#10. The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.

W. A. Criswell

#11. Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.

Cory Basil

#12. Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.

Jean Zimmerman

#13. More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.

Roy Blunt

#14. I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

Ronald Reagan

#15. Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

Richard Carlson

#16. Some people exert more energy on less important things; some people exert less energy on less important things.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.

Travis Thrasher

#18. Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.

Brian Herbert

#19. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Jim George

#20. I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.

Barack Obama

#21. The word priority was singular for 500 years - what does priorities mean - 'many many first things.'

Greg McKeown

#22. God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Judah Smith

#23. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Richard Branson

#24. Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

John H. Groberg

#25. The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.

David Shibley

#26. The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

Walter Cronkite

#27. What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

Lee Kuan Yew

#28. For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Ricardo Semler

#29. I held up a book, one Renfield had grabbed from my bedside table in his haste to pack for me. I'd found it in the bottom of my valise, one of the first things he threw in. Underwear and books - the fellow clearly had his priorities straight.

Lia Habel

#30. Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Louis Pasteur

#31. My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

David Beckham

#32. Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

Nick Cannon

#33. The great spider never worries itself chasing after its prey with all of its energy and strength. It only exerts its energy each morning to build its web in a magnificent way; relaxes in it and awaits its prey that will miss its path into the web

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#34. Organize and execute around priorities.

Stephen Covey

#35. Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively ... If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful

Stuart McRobert

#36. If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Richard J. Foster

#37. Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#38. Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say that's a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else.

Walter E. Williams

#39. My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#40. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#41. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#42. As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#43. The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

Olivia Wilde

#44. The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

John Wesley

#45. The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#46. We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chris Christie

#47. By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Martha Gellhorn

#48. It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Tim DeChristopher

#49. I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

Elizabeth Lesser

#50. My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

Lil' Wayne

#51. We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

Ted Cruz

#52. The first step in Choosing is Prioritizing.

Todd Stocker

#53. If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

Chalene Johnson

#54. Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

Anthony Liccione

#55. To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the "mind of Christ." We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.

R.C. Sproul

#56. My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

James Hunt

#57. The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

Kevin Spacey

#58. The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

Jean Toomer

#59. Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

Martha Beck

#60. Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

Stephen Covey

#61. On first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

R. Buckminster Fuller

#62. Eric believes in the three-week rule: When you start a new position, for the first three weeks don't do anything. Listen to people, understand their issues and priorities, get to know and care about them, and earn their trust.

Anonymous

#63. 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

#64. I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Harry Hopkins

#65. The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Leland Ryken

#66. I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

E.F. Schumacherm

#67. The best way to check what you want is to first imagine that you have nothing and then check if the thing you want really matters to you. Your priorities would change; your wishes would change for sure.

Vikrmn

#68. Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

Sara Sheridan

#69. Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

James E. Faust

#70. When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

Pat Benatar

#71. I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

Whitney Houston

#72. If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Joseph Campbell

#73. The primary task for the executive targeting first 100 days success is to set out the right strategic priorities and stay focused on them.

Niamh O'Keeffe

#74. Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.

Goswami Kriyananda

#75. There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#76. We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures that we cannot currently afford. This is the very least we should do in 2015

Anton Siluanov

#77. We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

Vladimir Putin

#78. When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

Peter Lynch

#79. What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? ... First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

J. Michael Straczynski

#80. When you climb a fruitless tree, you go hungry!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah