Prioritizing Others Quotes

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

More than my own life

I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

It's service, not status, that counts.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

It's not about you. It's about them.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

If me believing helping others should come before Instagram posts is 'stupid'... you got me right.

We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.

Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?