Quotes About Priorities

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.