Prioritizing Values Quotes

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Some things are more important than safety.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

You can't please God and please man at the same time. It's impossible; you can't do it. You've got to choose one.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.