Quotes About Priorities

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Our necessities never equal our wants

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Never take a wife till thou hast a house(and a fire) to put her in.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

There is ample time to sleep; after death.

Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.

Chi è pronto a dar via le proprie libertà fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza, non merita né la libertà né la sicurezza.

Our meditation practice, as Christians, is dedicated to three main priorities: welcoming the Holy Spirit, living a more Christlike life, and building His kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

There are so many students out there who said they don't understand NUS or know how to get involved, and don't think the priorities and policies of NUS represent them and reflect their interests.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.