Quotes about Priorities

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

You're not being responsible with what God gave you if you're hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.

my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.

When we start competing with people, we get distracted, we lose focus, and before long we're wasting time on things that are not moving us toward our purpose.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

Very few things in life matter.