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Quotes About Priorities

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
~ Peter Lynch
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
~ Van Jones
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
~ Nelson Mandela
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
~ Patrick Swayze
My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
~ Lee Trevino
I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
~ Tom Hardy
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
~ Richard Harris
When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?
~ Linda K. Burton
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
~ Stephen Hawking
The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
~ Samuel Chadwick
We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
~ James Taylor
Live uncluttered lives so you could have time for what is most important.
~ Bo Sanchez
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
~ Daniel Kahneman
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
If I could take my entire savings in place of something, I'd chose time.
~ Jang Keun-suk
People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.
~ Sheila Watt-Cloutier
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
~ William Wilberforce
Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.
~ Aziz Ansari
Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
~ Brett Favre
Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.
~ David Caruso
Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.
~ Doreen Massey