Quotes about Priorities

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.