Importance Quotes

I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Nobody's indispensable.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

7 x 7 plus love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

Although the last, not least.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Music is important for one's health.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.