Quotes About Priorities

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower

Im not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.