Quotes about Priorities

Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.

Meanwhile, the truth is, the only questions you ever need to consider when making decisions about your life are:     1. Is this something I want to be, do, or have?     2. Is this going to take me in the direction I want to go (not should go)?     3. Is this going to screw over* anybody else in the process?

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.' 'Good words,' I replied.  'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether undervalued and uncoveted by me.'' Heathcliff

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.

It is for you to arrange your priorities; but whatever you decide to do, don't do it resentfully, as if you were being imposed on.

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenagers, it seemed more exciting to go shopping at weekends. My mum told me not to worry about what my friends were doing and to stick at it.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.