Quotes About Priorities

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .

There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.

Once upon a time, it used to require a sacrifice to buy something. you saved up, you gave up thing you might want just so you could put enough money aside to purchase something big or long-lasting or vital. Now, people tend to think the sacrifices is not buying.

For those who still believe our age's disruptions match what happened after 1870, ask yourself which you would first give up, your iPhone or the flush toilet? Laptop or antibiotics? If you have trouble answering those, ponder life without electricity. It is a measure of our solipsism that we take for granted what went before.

As Princeton Newport Partners closed I reflected on the proposition that what matters in life is how you spend your time. When J. Paul Getty was the richest man in the world and manifestly not fulfilled, he said the happiest time of his life was when he was sixteen, riding waves off the beach in Malibu, California.

The most important reason to wind down the operation was that time was worth more to me than the extra money. Vivian and I wanted to enjoy our children and their families, and to travel, read, and learn. It was time once again to change course in life.

Success on Wall Street was getting the most money. Success for us was having the best life.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).

Doing, doing, doing!' cries the teenager. 'Why do I have to do anything anyway?!' Here, the adult is usually stuck for an answer. They know the usual answer, (you have to work to live) but the teen knows the reality… their parents are miserable from doing exactly this. Which is why, God has to come first... because that's where freedom is.

If God isn't enough for you, you will strive for the things of the world, and suffer. You will search for but never find the satisfaction that can only be found in God. Here is the lesson of lessons... to always put God first.

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).