Importance Quotes

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

~ John Cleese

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

~ Alain De Botton

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

~ Isocrates

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

~ Isaac Asimov

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

~ Johnny Rich

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

~ Samuel Johnson

Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.

~ Kiki Archer

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

There is no comparison between a girl and a boy, his importance, priorities, his freedom, his value and much more in this world, everything related to a boy is much more important than a girl and it doesn't matter how much a girl is educated or trustworthy a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy, I wish that at least every man should have a little trust on a girl and give her freedom to choose her own lifestyle... I believe in it that if you show your support for her she will surely never make your head down.

~ #Name?

It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don't see that life is what's important. Love, friendship, trust, respect, a daily routine, someone to grow old with, siblings to cherish, family, a home; things people don't give a damn about until they lose them, things money can't bring back.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.

~ Lik Hock Yap

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

~ J. Cornell Michel

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Give importance to those peoplewho give importance to you.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

Irony of importance: Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.

~ Shivam Singh

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

~ Jim George

People have this dream of being unreachable. They build a name for themselves and then finally fulfill their dream of being more important. Which just shows they were born from down below. Because when you're born from up above, your dreams have nowhere to go but downwards! And you dream of doing things in order to meet people, to know them, to understand the smallest importances!

~ C. Joybell C.

Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.

~ Amit Kalantri

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

~ E.m. Forster

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

~ Amit Kalantri

Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters...that people matter.

~ Steve Goodier

Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

~ Alan Sheinwald

If you think, you are important, you are not.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

~ Anna Quindlen

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

~ Michael Ruse

When man comes to the realization that he is not the favorite of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living.The recognition of a problem is the first step to its solution— We are not fallen angels, nor were we created perfect.On the contrary, we are the product of millions of years of an unpurposed evolution. We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our primitive ancestry—the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the infinitesimal to the mammoth—from the worm to the dinosaur.

~ Joseph Lewis

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

~ William Golding

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!

~ Charles Lee

We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.

~ Marty Rubin

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.

~ Margaret Atwood

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

~ Thomas Hardy

Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.

~ Rscruz