Quotes About Priorities

In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable.

Dirt is a thing people make too much fuss about.

Una vez que tu horario se convierte en tu propio, todo lo demás se vuelve insignificante.

Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires.

CONFUSE NOT THY NECESSARY EXPENSES WITH THY DESIRES. EACH OF YOU, TOGETHER WITH YOUR GOOD FAMILIES, HAVE MORE DESIRES THAN YOUR EARNINGS CAN GRATIFY.

Die in the desert! Not I! With a new vision, I saw the things that I must do. First I would go back to Babylon and face every man to whom I owed an unpaid debt. I should tell them that after years of wandering and misfortune, I had come back to pay my debts as fast as God would permit. Next I should make a home for my wife and become a citizen of whom my parents should be proud. My debts were my enemies, but the men I owed were my friends for they had trusted me and believed in me.

Vigilad que vuestra familia no pase necesidad si Dios os llama a su reino.

My sons think only of spending and give no thought to earning. My

Disfruta de la vida mientras estés aquí. No te esfuerces de más ni trates de ahorrar demasiado. Si una décima parte es todo lo que puedes ahorrar cómodamente, conténtate con quedarte con esa porción. Vive de acuerdo con tus ingresos y no vivas de manera avara ni tengas temor de gastar. La vida es buena y la vida es rica con cosas que valen la pena y cosas que disfrutar».

how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

KIRBY: A man can't give up his business. GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny...

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that succeeding will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night? Not in his Bible.

Over the years I've felt: Kindness, sure—but first let me finish this semester, this degree, this book; let me succeed at this job, and afford this house, and raise these kids, and then, finally, when all is accomplished, I'll get started on the kindness. Except it never all gets accomplished. It's a cycle that can go on … well, forever.

For every hundred bucks I make, I set aside five for Bernie's stone. What do you write on something like that? LIFE PASSED HER BY? DIED DISAPPOINTED? CAME BACK TO LIFE BUT FELL APART?

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Quien no trabaja no come, sí, pero quien trabaja no vive.

Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.' 'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.

When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?

Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.