Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
We are important to Him not because of our resume, but because we are His children.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.
Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.
I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.
Progress is more important than perfection.
I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.
Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
Sleep is extremely important to me - I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do to be absorbed by my body.
If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.
I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
What is most important almost always involves the people around us.
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