Quotes About Priorities

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

I may not own any carpets, but you've got to get your priorities right when it comes to life's luxuries. In my case it was music, microwave and movies—probably in that order.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance. ~Anna Percy

It's too easy to let good stuff slip through your hands while you're busy grasping at big, impossible dreams that might wreck you.

We have choices between living life to its fullest and trying to live life to its longest,

Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day to day tasks.

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn.

Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.

Anybody spending $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts,' declared Eisenhower.

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.

I was working second shift and weekends, never seeing my children, and I felt like I was selling my soul to the devil for health insurance and paid vacations.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

There's a honey-do-list for you on your nightstand in case you get to feeling like I managed just fine without you. And a wish list of movies I want to see, and books I'd like you to buy me." She bit her lip. "Actually I bought most of the books and called them gifts, so maybe you should give me back that list to update once more.

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath.

As things stand, most people approach life from the bottom up, giving their material needs priority.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

God is busy and has no time for you.

Finn closed in behind Taylor, an instinct like a mobster's. Family first.