Importance Quotes

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

Liberty, Second, Teeth

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Humanity, Labor, Dignity

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis

True, Important, Cannot

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

God, Morality, Highest

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Important, Everything, Nearly

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Life, Hope, History

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, War, After

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Remember

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Food, Care, Greatest

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

Life, Beautiful, Understand

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

Greatest, Children, Perfect

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Power, Society, Character

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Child, Solitude, Himself

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu

War, Enemy, Strategy

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Success, After, Victory

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Character, Passion

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Country, Office, Dignity

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, Philosophy

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar

Successful, Justice, Political

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

Democracy, Eloquence, Citizens

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton

Trying, Until, Started

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Hillary Clinton

Wisdom, Job, Done

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Before

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Temple Grandin

Good, Teacher, Enough

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Ocean, Movement

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Question, Dignity

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
Robin Hayes

Forget, Nation, Against

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater

Business, American, Forgotten

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