Priorities

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

If you’re not careful with your yeses, you start to say no to some very important things without even realizing it.

If you’re not careful with your yeses, you start to say no to some very important things without even realizing it.

Shauna Niequist

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Do not pay too much attention to money fame or power someday you'll meet person who cares for none of these and then you'll know how poor you're.

Do not pay too much attention to money fame or power someday you'll meet person who cares for none of these and then you'll know how poor you're.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

Indian proverbs

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

If you're not careful with your yeses, you start to say no to some very important things without even realizing it.

If you're not careful with your yeses, you start to say no to some very important things without even realizing it.

Shauna Niequist

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.