Quotes about Priorities

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

I've been told I'd get so much more work if I was smaller, but going out for dinner and drinks with my friend is more important to me than size.

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

The high cost of low living.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.