Quotes about Priorities
Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
— Charles Dickens
He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.
— Charles Dickens
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
— Charles Spurgeon
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
— Francis de Sales
There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.
— Mark Driscoll
A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
— Thomas Monson
So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust
— Thomas Watson
A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace.
— Thomas Watson
Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:
— Thomas Watson