Quotes about Priorities
I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.
— Bob Goff
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
— JC Ryle
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
— John Updike
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
— Samuel Johnson
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
— Samuel Johnson
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
— John Piper
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
— Charles Spurgeon
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?
— Billy Graham
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
— Marcus Aurelius
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
— Mark Twain
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.
— Oswald Chambers
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau