Quotes About Priorities

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Life is short, I have no time for drama.