Quotes about Priorities

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.