priorities quotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Money ain’t everything.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.