Quotes About Priorities

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.