Quotes About Importance

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?

so absorbed is the white world with its domestic dissensions that it pays scant heed to racial problems whose importance for the future of mankind far transcends the questions which engross its attention to-day. This

A body is a body." Viscarro shrugged his bony shoulders. "Dead, alive, alive, dead. I fail to see the importance of the distinction." Yeah? So you'd just as soon fuck a living person as a dead one? What's the point of the distinction? Oh, right-one's normal, and one's called necrophilia." Viscarro sighed. "Touche, I suppose.

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.