Quotes About Priorities

Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.

I've learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I've also learned that you can't please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what really matters.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

When I was living in L.A., first of all, I had actually tried out or submitted to be on 'Tough Enough' when I was living in L.A. and then I ended up getting, like, a few call backs, but because I had just moved out there for the Lakers, I just felt like I couldn't have done both.

Even though I played in the NBA, we tried to give our kids as normal a life as possible. We gave them everything they needed, not everything they wanted, and they had to work for what they wanted. I think that mentality helped.

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

Every single person who tries to juggle a family and their life knows all those things that pull at you.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

I've seen too many people who struggle financially who save thousands of dollars and go on a one year trip. And then they come back out of money, thirty years old, and back to living with their parents and saying 'I'm back to getting any job possible to get more money for travel.'