Quotes about Priorities

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death but life without a purpose—life with the wrong priorities. Life's greatest challenge is in knowing what to do. The greatest mistake in life is to be busy but not effective. Life's greatest failure is to be successful in the wrong assignment. Success in life is measured by the effective use of one's time.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your desires and discipline.

We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].

You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”