Quotes About Priorities

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

Too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.

WHAT CAN YOU SPEND BUT YOU CAN NEVER GET BACK????TIME!CHOOSE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH WISELY.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

I try to just focus on the love and my family. That's what I'm focussed on every single day.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. ... The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.