Quotes about Priorities

There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em... Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.