#Importance Quotes

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

“Small to greater matters must give way.”

“The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Little things are big.”

“The cemetery is full of indispensable people.”

“Although the last, not least.”

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

“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

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

“A thing is important if anyone think it important.”

“Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.”

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

“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.”

“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.”

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

“Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.”

“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.”

“Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.”

“Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

“Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”

“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.”

“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”

“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.”

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

“[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.”

“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.”

“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.”

“Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.”

“The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.”

“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.”

“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”

“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.”

“To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.”

“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”

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

“Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.”

“The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.”

“We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“The beginning is half of the whole.”

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