Quotes About Priorities

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.

When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things, the world will finally know peace.

When we find money in the street, we happily pick it up, even if it's just a buck, but when we bump into love, we tend to be so picky.

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

The man who is successful is the man who works hard during business hours, and then goes home and leaves his office behind him and takes up play. A man should devote a part of each day to recreation, to outdoor exercise, to frivolity and to frolicking with his children at home. If he does not care to play, worry will take the place of play. Worry and hard work together will kill a man. Work and play will make him live.

Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation.

I have no large desire to sacrifice much of my personal habits, intellectual pleasures, and personal standards in order to become a billionaire like Warren Buffett, and I certainly do not see point of becoming one if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.

If you want to understand how vapid are the current modernistic arguments (and understand your existential priorities), consider the difference between lions in the wild and those in captivity. Lions in captivity live longer; they are technically richer, and they are guaranteed job security for life, if these are the criteria you are focusing on …

Sadly, it may be even worse for you to make $10 million, then lose back nine, than to making nothing at all! True, you may end up with a million (as compared to nothing), but it may be better had you got zilch. (This assumes, of course, that you care about financial rewards.)

We saw the trade-off between the interests of the collective and those of the individual.

best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri—either children or books, both information that carries through the centuries.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

she may have been happier before the Black Swan of her success than after.

people might prefer to do something other than maximize their economic interests.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.