Quotes About Priorities

While motherhood has been one of her greatest joys, she also wants to let the world in on how challenging it can be to juggle everything on her plate.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

We are too busy fixing the train to realize that we are on the wrong track. We are too busy staying alive to figure out how to live.

You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that's why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.

Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

Ten thousand square feet? Do you really need ten thousand square feet? You both take up about ten square feet with your arms outstretched, spinning in circles." Felix said, "The west wing is for Celeste's wardrobe." Celeste said, "And the east wing is for Felix's ego.

Never fear, protecting my womb from Gothic novels is my first priority.

When family really needed you, nothing else mattered.

She kissed the top of his head and stroked his back. "If, a year from now, you were stuck on the tracks and a train was coming, what would you regret? Not taking a road trip to the Grand Canyon? Or not spending that year with Emma?" He gave a short laugh. "Trust me, Emma is the train." "That's love, honey." She squeezed a little harder and he felt some of the crappiness he'd been feeling slip away.

In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. Will he aim at your enemy? — From Cantra yos'Phelium's Log Book (quoted in many

You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters.

You do not decide first if you want to live in a village or a court. You decide if that is the man you want to live with, and then you say yes or no.

I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.