Quotes About Priorities

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

What a pleasant life she might have if only she chose! I don' envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think.

I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, - marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.

Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. If they love one another it doesn't matter a particle how old they are nor how poor. Women never should marry for money... Amy caught herself up short as the words escaped her, and looked at her husband, who replied, with malicious gravity...

it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's

The childless old lady had offered to adopt one of the girls when the troubles came, and was much offended because her offer was declined. Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said - We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.

My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the firdt or onlsy prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient

What a pleasant life she might have, if she only chose. I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think, added Jo

Money is needful and precious thing - and, when well used, a noble thing - but I never want you to think of it as the only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Pierpont was already urging him to cut back his schedule.

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

Having known many rich people, Gates was impressed that Rockefeller had no private yachts or railroad cars.

I think you like money better than anything else in the whole world, and I do not. I like to have a little fun along with business as I go through life.

I lose all taste for the pursuits of ambition. I sigh for nothing but the company of my wife and my baby.

Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

It's not always easy to spot idolatry in ourselves. Until the Holy Spirit brings it to light, we may be unaware how tight a grip something has on us. For that reason, we should pay close attention to anything we're convinced we can't live without.

la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa. Y es verdad que perdemos el tiempo preocupándonos por nimiedades, que nos aturdimos y nos empecinamos tontamente, que tendemos a pensar que la auténtica vida está por llegar.

It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years slipping off the calendar and into the past. Once, there had been time. Time to stand, or sit, and just look at daffodils. Or to abandon housekeeping, on the spur of the moment, walk out of the back door and up the hill, into the lark-song emptiness of a summer morning.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.

So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

Open the old cigar-box .....let me consider anew..... Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you? A million surplus Maggies are willing 'o bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke. Light me another Cuba..... I hold to my first-sworn vows, If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for spouse!