Quotes About Priorities

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do.

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.