Quotes About Priorities

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don't spend time on the foundation of their life.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.