Quotes About Priorities

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank

Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday

Father Chmielowski, you seem to care more about books than you do about people,

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these become at last their most serious concerns.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

I… chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul's desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

I wish people could accomplish everything they want so they could learn its not everything they need.

I knew all about the importance of dressmakers, because I'd spent my childhood with a woman permanently torn between the necessity of possessing beautiful clothes and the difficulty of paying for them.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

The truth is that we are a generation that has too much to live with and too little to live for.