Quotes About Priorities

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

with a job at his tannery. Tomorrow I'll go to Sears's store and stock our cupboard, but for tonight, for the children—" She reached into her apron and pulled out the purse. Lyddie pushed it

Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

Each of us is a steward of the days allotted for our lifetime, and learning to manage our commitments and priorities is critical. We can become empowered Christians who live meaningful lives. We can love generously and have relationships that satisfy. We can leave the past behind and own a life without condemnation. We are made to accomplish great feats of faith and courage and to live a life worth telling.

But the survey also indicated that men tended to place greater value on attaining a high position and earning a high salary, whereas women placed a higher value on the actual experience of work.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

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.

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less expense by way of show was required of him

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.