Fantasia Barrino Quotes

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

I have a job I love and a great family, so I'm pretty lucky.

It's always been a battle for me between personal goals and wanting to be able to share the success I've had with my family. And I guess as I've gotten older, I've kind of realized, you know, you can do all these cool things, but if you don't have people in your life to share it with, what's the point?

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

Life is not about money.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

Money ain't everything.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Money is not the most important to me.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Money can't buy happiness.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.