Quotes About Priorities

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it.

How many things are there which I do not want.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Hayat k?sa, vazife a??r, f?rsatlar geçicidir.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

As a Tibetan saying goes: "Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Dantzel had just been accepted to the Julliard School of Music when the desire for marriage preempted her accepting. She ultimately exchanged a promising future in music for the privilege of singing lullabies to her little ones.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

People lose half of their health to gain wealth, and they lose half of their wealth to regain their health. When I had all my teeth. I had no nuts to chew, and now that I got the nuts, I have no teeth to chew. Caught up between gaining and losing, they lose their entire life.

And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.