Quotes About Priorities

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues, and spiritual values.2

Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria —afirmaba—. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar aún más la fama, la gloria y los honores.

Don't fight over divvying up the proceeds until you finish robbing the stagecoach.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

People are so afraid of dying that they don't even live the little bit of life they have.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

Friends and family, as well as my personal relationship with the Lord, are more important than anything else.

not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

That's what you should be worrying about. Idiots with all the money, plowing it into building a thing just because they can.

I don't want to kill her. But then I don't want to shit and eat. But in the order to live I have to do it.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

I focus on what's really important in life. Quality rather than appearance, ethics rather than rules,integrity rather than domination, knowledge rather than achievement, serenity rather than acquisitions.

look into your heart and examine what is truly important.

You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.