Quotes About Priorities

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

My dad saved for everything that mattered—a washer and dryer, a new refrigerator. By the time I left home in Nashville in 1976, he still hadn't gotten a new TV. He said his "money wasn't right." When The Oprah Winfrey Show went national, that's the first thing I bought him—a color TV, paid for in cash

Wenn Sie morgen sterben, welches Versäumnis werden Sie bereuen? Wenn morgen der letzte Tag Ihres Lebens wäre, würden Sie ihn so verbringen wie heute?

Ä°nsan hayatta deÄŸilken bile paran?n önemini biliyor.

Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave to his breadwinning? We ought to be able to get a good living, even to make fortunes, and yet have a good time every day of our lives. This idea of being a slave most of the time, and of only occasionally enjoying a holiday, is all wrong.

Better a cheap coffin and a plain funeral after a useful, unselfish life, than a grand mausoleum after a loveless, selfish life.

Remember that there is something else in the world even more important than making money. Your health, your family, your friendships should mean a thousand times more to you than dollarchasing. Life was given us for enjoyment, not for one long, strenuous, straining struggle in the dreary drudgery of scraping dollars together.

A man can have no greater delusion than that he can spend the best years of his life coining all of his energies into dollars, neglecting his home, sacrificing friendships, self-improvement, and everything else that is really worth while, for money, and yet find happiness at the end!

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Life is too short to learn German

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!