Quotes About Priorities

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

Finnish troops knew they were in the army to fight, not to march in parades, and in the kind of war they were called upon to fight, that was precisely the right set of priorities.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

I love long life better than figs.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

But most people are too busy working on survival to find the opportunity to create.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

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

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not.

It's easy to be overwhelmed by our desires for material things, but the fact is, most of us know what we truly value. Sometimes we just need a little reminder.

When it comes to persecuting people for pot, there's a long list of horror stories. The thing that gets me is, why? Why waste precious law enforcement resources on bullshit? I

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

The tent was for Abraham's living. Abraham did not take care of his living first. That was secondary. With Abraham, the primary matter [560] was to consecrate everything to God, to worship and serve God, and to have fellowship with God. Only then did Abraham pitch a tent for his living.

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

Sometimes we waste too much time to think about someone who doesn't even think about us for a second.

Rather than listen to what other people tell you, find out what is really important to you and just be concerned with that

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.