Quotes about Priorities

What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Then again we find that young girls in their hearts regard their domestic or other affairs as secondary things, if not as a mere jest. Love, conquests, and all that these include, such as dressing, dancing, and so on, they give their serious attention.

I think it's a worthy undertaking--to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you'll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.