Best 448 quotes in «importance quotes» category

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance.

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration.

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!