Quotes about Priorities

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.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

There's always time to date.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

My mom taught me she loved me and God loved me and nothing else mattered.

I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.