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Quotes About Priorities

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!
~ Nicola Roberts
It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
~ Pamela Anderson
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
~ Plutarch
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.
~ Oswald Chambers
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.
~ Robert Browning
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
~ Henry Miller
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
~ Hugh Jackman
I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
~ Isabel Allende
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
~ Ismail Merchant
I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.
~ J. Robbins
Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
~ Jacque Fresco
I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.
~ Jay Mohr
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.
~ Jim Gaffigan
It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
~ John Caird
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
~ John Gay
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
First the grub, then the morals.
~ Bertolt Brecht
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
~ Ann Curry