Quotes About Priorities

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.

A caress is better than a career.

Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

Happiness at any price is no happiness at all.

Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.