Quotes About Priorities

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.

A real friend, he'd say, is the one who, when you say you need for them to kill someone for you, asks only, "And where did you want me to dump the body?" I understood that it was hyperbole, but I saw him do barely less more than once, to exhaust himself in research and effort to him his people. Which is how he divided the whole world: his people and everyone else.

The pack is everything to me. Family is everything to me. I'll never stop protecting what's important to me, even if I have to die doing it.

In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money) seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.

Wyrzek?szy si? wszystkich przest?pstw wieku dzieci?cego, rozporz?dza? teraz du?? ilo?ci? wolnego czasu i nauczy? si? kierowa? si?y na ?ycie wewn?trzne.

25 Mart 1935 adl? mektuptan Etraf?n seni s?kt??? zaman kitap oku… Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im ve kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im ve kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Ben ?imdiye kadar her ?eyden çok kitaplar?m? severdim. Bundan sonra her ?eyden çok seni sevece?im. Kitaplar? beraber sevece?iz.

Life is like an overgrown garden. You can spend your time cursing the weeds, or you can work to pull them out. In either case, the flowers are what matter.

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.

you look at your child with intelligence, do you see that to get him everything that he asks for is sheer stupidity?

So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace, love, compassion so much.

You have pursued so much for your well-being: your home, your business, your car, your spouse, your child, your club membership. But look back now and see: have you caught the fish, or has the fish caught you?

Una casa limpia es señal de una vida desperdiciada.

This is the time to make those hard decisions and let things go. Ask yourself, "Is this item part of my past or my future?" If it's sentimental, take a picture and let it go! Save the memory in a picture, but not on your shelf.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.

From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.

Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people— unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.

Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, nor the acts of the famous Romans and Grecians; nor those excerpta from several books; all which thou hadst provided and laid up for thyself against thine old age. Hasten therefore to an end, and giving over all vain hopes, help thyself in time if thou carest for thyself, as thou oughtest to do.

Each morning, remind yourself that this day may be your last. And when you tuck your children into bed at night, remember that they, too, are mortals who someday will die.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Busyness is no excuse for neglecting our duties to family, friends, and community.