Quotes About Priorities

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

And then Ginny jumping in with, "So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.

When it's all said and done, the only thing that matter in life are so damn simple. Family, friends. being safe and well. I think before the war a lot of people got sucked in by the crap on TV. They thought having the right shoes or the right jeans or the right car really mattered. Boy were we ever dumb.

We've all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks. We've learnt a lot and we've had to figure out what's important, what matters – what really matters. It's been quite a time.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.