Quotes About Priorities

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

El que por complacer a los demás, contra su gusto y sin necesidad, se fatiga corriendo tras la fortuna, los honores u otra cosa cualquiera, es siempre un loco.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.

El tiempo es tu vida; ni más, ni menos. La manera cómo gastas las horas y los días es la manera como gastas la vida.

I don't think money makes much difference, as long as you have enough.

You know Chad's definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year's model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after?

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. What is the West but a gigantic supermarket? And who really wants to die for a supermarket?

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

Elder James E. Faust expressed a similar feeling this way: "Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness" (Ensign, November 1977, p. 11).

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

We see how mankind,   without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and   ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus   catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness   itself. In

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.