Quotes About Priorities

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME..." Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"

.theres much more important things..

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

this is the difference between you native Italians and those of us called Italian Americans. You live a balanced life. You work, you eat, you rest. We don't. We can't. We live as though we have something to prove. There's never enough time, we eat on the run, and we sleep as little as possible. We believe the one who works the hardest wins." The

It is not as though God had no interest in our earthly concerns, but we ought to have even more interest in his.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

Having children is life's greatest joy. But there are some people, and maybe you are one of them, who don't like kids, and consider travel life's greatest joy. You shouldn't have kids. Don't have them.

Simply put, once married you will no longer give a shit about how you look. What's more, personal appearance can be a handy arena in which to punish your spouse passive aggressively by allowing your own appearance to deteriorate.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.