Quotes About Priorities

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.

Pattern Consistency is a major key to time-management. Search for and discover the best time to do planning, and do your planning at that same time every day. When the priorities receive their own place in the day, each day will have the same pattern. Pattern begets comfort and productivity. Patience An abundance of patience is needed to manage time consistently. Making the change to becoming a good time-manager may be very difficult.

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

I couldn't keep a dog and a James Joyce and a bookshop.

Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?

The time to shift your priorities in the direction of Destiny is never convenient. There will always be a reason to put it off until later.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

nasze uczestnictwo w Eucharystii b?dzie takie jak nasza codzienno??. Je?eli w codzienno?ci s? dla nas wa?ne jedynie przedmioty, sprawy do za?atwienia, interesy, nawet naj?wi?tsze, [...] wtedy przychodz?c na Eucharysti?, jeste?my ju? w jakim? stopniu pozbawieni mo?liwo?ci wej?cia z Bogiem w blisko??.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

I'd like to kiss you, Darling, but I just washed my hair.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

I'd never met...anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.

You do what your woman or your kid needs, even when it feels a lot harder than dying.