Priorities Quotes

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

To change your LIFEyou need to change your PRIORITIES.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to bedone. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.

Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

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