Quotes about Priorities

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

It is OK to be a little selfish about my priorities.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.