Quotes About Priorities

Being rich is fine, and at the very least is better than being poor. But it shouldn't be the be-all and end-all of your life, or anyone's life.

Averile nu te fac bogat, ci-Å£i sporesc grijile; nu te fac st?pân, ci v?taf. Mai mulÅ£i sunt cei st?pâniÅ£i de bog??ii, decât cei ce le st?pânesc.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

If it's important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")

Let no human being nor earthly satisfaction mean so much to you that you would sin for them. If you love anything that much, your love is misguided and foolish.

In viata nu ai decat o unica mare dragoste ; toate cele care o preceda sunt amoruri de rodaj, iar toate cele care o urmeaza sunt amoruri de recuperare...

Cunoa?te?i diferen?a dintre boga?i ?i s?raci? S?racii vând droguri pentru ca s?-?i cumpere Nike, iar boga?ii vând Nike pentru ca s?-?i cumpere droguri.

Los ricos de hoy han olvidado que el dinero es un medio, no un fin. Ya no saben qué hacer con él.

Alexandre e Selene eram filhos do amor. Antes fossem órfãos! Os casais apaixonados estão demasiado ocupados com eles próprios para se interessarem pela progenitura: preocupar-se-á a árvore que cresce com os frutos que caem?

Anything that ties us to the world rather than drawing us closer to God is worldly.

What aspects of yourself would you fight to protect, as if you were fighting for your life?

It's more important to look good than to feel good. Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

The Christian faith has become a cheap faith because we too often live as if it has no value. We complain when the preacher runs over a few minutes on the Sunday sermon and consider it a great inconvenience to return to services once or twice more in the same week. No wonder so much of the world does not consider our faith relevant when we are not even willing to give of our time, much less our freedom or lives, for what we say we believe in.

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

In our world, we give most of our attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently we are one-sided. We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic. The soul actually demands as much attention as the body. It demands fellowship and communion with God.

While we're looking up to see the rainbow—God's promises—we're ignoring floodwaters rising. While we're looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we're taking our eyes off of Christ.

Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.