Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

I know where my priorities lie.

I always make time for the things that are important to me.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

It is at least as important to know what we are fighting for as what we are fighting against.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.

I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

Action expresses priorities.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.