Quotes About Priorities

It is an almost overpowering effort to be just, informed, sane and strong when you are worried about a roof over your head, money for food, for the children's shoes, for coal, for a little fun, worried and harassed by the daily unending problem of living. But it is an effort that must be made, for lasting peace is not going to come of itself, nor cheaply, nor due to someone else.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

Like so many aspects of mortal life, sleep was overrated.

He didn't know what he wanted most, a shower or to get his vaccinations renewed.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

Three P's: Personal Pacing, Priorities, and Parameters

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one" W Somerset Maugham, British novelist

Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

A woman's life has so many demands because she is the axis around which so many little planets spin.

Juvenal is not the only one to write off the priorities of the Roman people as 'bread and circuses'. Fronto, the tutor of Marcus Aurelius, makes exactly the same point when he writes of the emperor Trajan that 'he understood that the Roman people are kept in line by two things beyond all else: the corn dole and entertainments'.

That is partly because of the new ways of looking at the old evidence, and the different questions we choose to put to it. It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not. But we come to Roman history with different priorities

We're so busy trying to please those we care about, that we lose track of what's important to us.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.

I'm a one-hour mama, so no one-minute papa. Ain't the kind of man for me.

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.

Who, being loved, is poor?

For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.