Jimmy Carter Quotes

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Always get back to your core principles.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

If we can afford large sums of money or other such things as horseracing, and motion picture films, and we do—I'm not arguing against them—then I say we ought to have sufficient sense of values to say that health is more important than these things, and if we can find money for relatively non-essential things, we can find the money to give our people good health.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

You have these great institutions spinning around you with great centrifugal force. You have to try to keep them spinning around the center.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

The things that I care about have never changed.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I know what really matters in my life.

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

God's first, then family, then whatever else you love.

Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.