Quotes About Priorities

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.

Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.