Quotes About Priorities

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Man's life is of God, not of his goods, however abundant they may be.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puede haber una crisis en la siguiente semana. Mi agenda ya está llena" (Henry Kissinger)

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

Disregard females, acquire currency

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Send him to the devil, I'm busy.

In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children.

It is better to know several basic rules of life than to study many unnecessary sciences. The major rules of life will stop you from evil and show you the good path in life; but the knowledge of many unnecessary sciences may lead you into the temptation of pride, and stop you from understanding the basic rules of life.

Let the dead bury their dead; but, while we are alive, let us live.

Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!

Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?