Top 100 Most Important Quotes
#1. I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.
Max Greenfield
#2. Why be fearful of saying no to someone or of leaving something undone when the most important thing of all was to enjoy life fully?
Paulo Coelho
#3. Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#4. I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.
Alexandra Roach
#5. One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.
Lewis Black
#6. Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.
Jim Butcher
#7. Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.
Jay Maisel
#8. The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.
Tony Juniper
#9. The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone.
Lois Lowry
#10. I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think.
Timothy Pina
#13. We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ.
Thomas A Kempis
#14. The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il-sung
#15. How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
Hanif Kureishi
#17. Fatherhood changes you completely. If things didn't go my way before, I became withdrawn and didn't want to see or listen to anyone. Now, when I arrive home, I see my son and everything is OK. He's the most important thing to me now.
Lionel Messi
#18. Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
Hallie Ephron
#19. Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.
Joshua Bell
#20. The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.
Ben Wikler
#21. I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
Tanya Fischer
#22. I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.
Dave Barry
#23. Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.
Joe Lieberman
#24. To me, the most important rules in life are:
1. Never trust people you love.
2. Never trust people you don't love.
3. Never trust people at all.
Girl234
#25. The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.
Eran Kolirin
#26. If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.
Christine Jones
#27. The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.
Pierre Coupey
#28. There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner
#29. You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
Sam Altman
#30. I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.
Derrick Jensen
#31. Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
Brad Holland
#32. Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
Stephen Covey
#33. We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
Norman Cousins
#34. Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#35. I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.
Kurt Schrader
#36. Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.
David S. Rose
#37. I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
Timur Bekmambetov
#38. For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.
Jack Ma
#39. It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
Beryl Bainbridge
#40. As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.
Joe Bastianich
#41. The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
Tim Hansel
#42. The three most important ways to lead people are: ... by example ... by example ... by example.
Albert Schweitzer
#43. Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
Patty Murray
#44. The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.
Tom Clancy
#45. One of the most important steps you can take in building a visionary company is not an action, but a shift in perspective.
James C. Collins
#46. I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#47. The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. creativity is the single most important leadership competency
Anonymous
#49. The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life's journey. Nothing equals love.
Sargent Shriver
#50. I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself.
Khaled Hosseini
#51. Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.
John C. Maxwell
#52. It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.
Manny Pacquiao
#53. Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson
#54. The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
Anthony De Mello
#56. If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
#57. A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
Donny Osmond
#58. CEOs believe that the most important skill needed to navigate today's complex business world is creativity.
Emma Seppala
#59. For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing you won't lose yourselves, become unoriginal, what happens is the opposite, by doing this you'll find yourselves. The more you read, the better. The
Karl Ove Knausgard
#60. Marriage isn't a business, co-owned and managed. It's a love story. The most important things we can give our marriage are time and romance, kissing and laughing. Laundry can wait, but a love story needs to be written a little bit every day. WHEN
Shauna Niequist
#61. The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
David Ausubel
#62. When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. "Important. That's one word. Everything. That's another. Loved," he said, adding the most important word of all. "God, Darcy, you are so loved.
Cindy Gerard
#63. Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.
Richie Norton
#64. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
#65. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
Kapil Dev
#66. The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Tom Peters
#67. You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
Peter Berg
#68. Most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning.
John Green
#69. It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#70. Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.
Brian Tracy
#71. Do you have experience?" "Well, no. But I undress myself every day, and that seems to be the most important thing I need to know.
Cambria Hebert
#72. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
Guy Finley
#73. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
Dustin Moskovitz
#74. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.
Deborah Ellis
#75. The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#76. For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.
Donald Tusk
#77. But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing.
Kandi Steiner
#78. What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy.
Adele Devine
#79. The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
Timothy Ferriss
#80. I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Gail Sheehy
#81. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
#82. In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg
#83. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.
Neal Stephenson
#84. Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
#85. For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.
David Mixner
#86. Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.
Robert G. Allen
#87. Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.
Tony Robbins
#88. Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
Benjamin Disraeli
#89. Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert Morgan
#90. When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.
Jill Shalvis
#91. The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
Michael Palin
#92. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Michael Ledeen
#93. The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?
Albert Einstein
#94. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Michael Korda
#95. The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian
#96. Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.
Susan Sontag
#97. People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.
Warren Buffett
#98. Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
Donald Tusk
#99. Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.
Tim Shieff
#100. When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
Terrence Malick
