Quotes about Priorities
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
— Francis Chan
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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].
— Billy Graham
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.
— Myles Munroe
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.
— Anne Frank
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.
— Stephen Covey
You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
— Randy Alcorn
A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.
— Dale Carnegie
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
— Luke 12:21
When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?
— Lysa TerKeurst
And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?
— 2 Corinthians 12:15
If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?
— Max Lucado