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Quotes About Priorities

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns." The Apolloite groom to Rafael
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Bites
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to answer his needs.
~ Massimo Vignelli
God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first.
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.
~ Ross Perot
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
~ Benjamin Franklin
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
~ Jack Nicholson
Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
~ Dwight L. Moody
You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
~ Henry Cloud
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
~ Bill Watterson
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
~ Deion Sanders
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.
~ George H. W. Bush
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
~ Brenda Fassie
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
~ Sidney Howard
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.
~ Kathleen Winsor
I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want
~ Parker Stevenson
Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
~ Dennis Prager
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
~ Dorothy Parker
There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.
~ Nick Diaz