Quotes About Priorities

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.