Quotes About Priorities

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

Winning isn't everything, Eisenhower said faintly. Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.

Listen, I'll share some of the wisdom I learned over the years. When you near the end of your life... when you're a lonely old man... you start realizing what your accomplishments are really worth. The most brilliant clue I ever deciphered, the millions I earned -- even the microwavable burrito itself -- sometimes I think I'd be willing to trade all of it for a single hug of someone who truly loves me.

Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better." "Did Vince Lombardi say that?" Reagan asked. "Or Shakespeare?" "No," Eisenhower said. "I did.

Mai mult m-a preocupat chipul altuia. Îndat? ce acela începuse s? conteze în viaÈ›a mea, arta încet? s? mai fie lux, devenind resurs?, modalitate de ajutorare.

In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

If there had been a cost for calling an ambulance, I wouldn't have done it. I couldn't have afforded it. I would have let myself die.

Even she couldn't believe she'd spent so much money on household appliance. Money that she could just as easily have spend on handbags or bottles of wine. The only conclusion she could draw was that she was finally grown-up. Which was funny because in her head she was still sixteen and trying to decide what to do when she left school.

When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.

men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father

Maar wie maakte zich druk om geld als je het afwoog tegen geluk?

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...

But birth control can also be compelled by sinful motivations. These can include putting lesser priorities like career above higher priorities like family or greedily wanting to make as much income as possible to the exclusion of everything else, and not incur the costs of child raising; being selfish and not wanting to have to care for a child; or immaturely not wanting to take on the responsibility that good parenting requires.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.