Quotes About Importance

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

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

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?