Life Prioritization Quotes

People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

What happens when we put belief in front of reason? When we even put belief above human life?

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

I need an anchor and I need to sort out one side of my life, so if I can sort my football out, even if it is abroad, then that will help in the long term.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.

I have a very simple point of view, which is, I'm going to be alive for some amount of time; I don't know how long that's going to be. Then I'm going to be dead for a really, really long time. Right? You need to squeeze everything you can out of this time when you're alive.