Quotes about Priorities
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...
— Edith Wharton
He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—
— Edith Wharton
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
— Edward Welch
My wants are what concern me. That's where the battle must be fought.
— Edward Welch
When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.
— Edward Welch
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
— William Wordsworth
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
— Ian Mckellen
If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.
— George Muller
I am not crazy about bags or watches. For me, anywhere I go for a holiday or for work, the first thing that I go and buy are shoes.
— Jennifer Winget
My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
— Josh McDowell
Being able to score touchdowns and win games is a way to get a platform. But, ultimately, if that's what you do in your life, and that's what your life is based on, I don't know - I feel like that's a little bit of a meaningless life.
— Tim Tebow