Quotes on Important

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

The most important things are the hardest to say

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.