Quotes About Priorities

Money takes our minds off God.

In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul . . . We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

The acquirement of wealth demanded his entire strength, and all lighter considerations he had consistently refused to recognize, until he thought them dead.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.

Busyness is certainly one of the reasons that owners don't think about whether or not their journey is taking them to a place they really want to wind up. They're constantly preoccupied—it goes with the territory—and figuring out the ultimate destination doesn't seem particularly urgent alongside, say, meeting the next payroll or landing the next big customer

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Life is very important to Americans.

she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

Money can't buy you life

Here are some of the towns I played last year: Carmel, Indiana; Hutchinson, Kansas; and Huntsville, Alabama. I even played Peoria. So why not limit my dates to easy-to-reach cities like Toronto, Chicago, and Reno? Easier still, why not just retire?

There are segments of time you've set aside to things that you once held to be important. Are they as important as developing a new, wealthy mindset?

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn't give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.