Quotes About Priorities

We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating.

I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

The busy have no time for tears.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

I believe it would do us good to rise above the little things, the disappointing things, the difficult things, and to see the larger things that are now facing us and to ask ourselves how we are to meet them.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things.