Quotes about Priorities

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget … Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

Friends and family, as well as my personal relationship with the Lord, are more important than anything else.

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.