Quotes About Priorities

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

We cannot love the Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength while we are loving our appetites, our tastes, a great deal better than we love the Lord.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

But I am not bitter because that would be a waste of my time, and wasting time is one of the only sins worth worrying about.

I am not bitter because that would be a waste of my time, and wasting time is one of the only sins worth worrying about.

Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?' (page 262)

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

me convencí de que no quería un futuro de deportista de élite, lejos de casa siempre, con esos hombros de culturista que se les ponen a las lanzadoras de peso y con una vida profesional muy corta.

I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself.

God can't give you your mere wants at the expense of your basic needs like food/shelter. So, you've got to stop bothering him with your wants.

God is never concerned with the supply of our wants including yours. Yes, he is only concerned with the supply of your necessities.

Self-centeredness is inhumane. Oh! Yes, life isn't meant to be all about you. And so, others ought to be among your priorities.

What lies before you matters more than whatever that lies behind you. In other words, whatever you think that you have lost in the past is nothing to be compared to what is obtainable for you in the future. Now that implies, you have to disregard your past life or past glory. And do regard only the fabulous future ahead of you. For, believe you me. What the future holds in stock for you is better off than whatever you think you have lost previously. -Emeasoba George

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Believer me, life can be much simpler. And you'll discover an energy for the things in life that really matter.

When life gets too cluttered, we neglect the important things.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports to watch, so who had time for anything else?

If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.

All that has to do with matters of material existence I leave to my wife.