Quotes about Priorities

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .