Quotes About Priorities

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. ~Stephen Covey

He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world over hate and fear us, would have been better spent on public education and libraries. It's hard to imagine that history won't prove him right, if it hasn't already.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife.

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

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor.

What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.

What's more important? Your company or your life?" It was a rhetorical question. I was warning him that, stripped of his identity at the top of a sixty-thousand-employee organization, he was vulnerable to boredom, dislocation, depression. I'd seen it before in ex-CEOs who didn't prepare well for their corporate exit. It would be "irresponsible" if he didn't create a new identity for himself.

What in my life is worth keeping?" The

Mike thought a minute, and then said, "I'm going to change, and the reason I'm going to change has nothing to do with money and it has nothing to do with this firm. I'm going to change because I have two sons, and if they were receiving this same feedback from you in twenty years, I'd be ashamed.

It is incredibly difficult for any of us to look in the mirror every day and face the reality that we didn't even try to do what we claimed was most important in our lives. Even

people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.