Quotes About Priorities

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given—for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.

If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor.

Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

What are we saying to our children when we forsake church week after week so they can play soccer, baseball, or football? Why would we forsake worship of the living God to embrace kicking a ball? Why not forsake soccer to let our children know who and what is most important in our lives? There is nothing wrong with sports. But when sport is valued over the worship of God, something is seriously wrong. All that we have comes from His hand. He deserves

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: "I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family." Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother's every time.

he's become the man he envisioned himself being and has put his priorities in this order: God, family, education, business, and then everything else. But if family isn't second, it's about to be a problem;

two things had to happen to him: first, he had to find out what was important to him, and what it was like to lose it. And second, he had to come to the realization that he needed to restructure his priorities: God first, then family.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies. If you choose to go over there, then you need to stay over there for the night.

What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.