Top 100 Most Important Things Quotes
#1. I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
Richard Shelby
#2. The most important things is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest
#3. If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.
Charles M. Schwab
#4. The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler
#5. The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack.
Pearl Zhu
#6. Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
Ron Lewis
#7. When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.
Krysten Ritter
#8. I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art's kind of important, too.
Corey Feldman
#9. Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.
Curtis Stone
#10. The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
#11. I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways.
Paul Dano
#12. That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington
#13. It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
Henry Kravis
#14. There are some lines you just can't let another person cross. They don't always make sense, they might not always seem like the most important things, but only you can know what they are, and when you butt up against one, you have to defend it.
Karen Marie Moning
#15. Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.
Eric Fischl
#16. I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.
Eric Schlosser
#17. The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
Joe Meno
#18. I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.
Ann Romney
#19. I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
Renzo Piano
#20. Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. Is
Alan W. Watts
#21. Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.
Jack O'Neill
#22. One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.
Jeff VanderMeer
#23. My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.
Marion Jones
#24. People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
Jess Weixler
#25. Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.
Ibi Kaslik
#26. To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you're made.
Iris Apfel
#27. One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.
Tommy Hilfiger
#28. The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
Edmund White
#29. Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
Greg Graffin
#30. I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
Annie Baker
#31. Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder
#32. The most important things to know in life are how to love unconditionally and how to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.
Robert Carrier
#34. I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
Nancy Grace
#35. It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#36. The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
Lesley Visser
#37. For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
Jennifer Lynch
#38. The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
#39. Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
Don McCullin
#40. Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.
Tom Hopkins
#41. As a rule, people tend to forget the most important things in life when money, power and lust are involved.
Cristiane Serruya
#42. Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
Mehcad Brooks
#43. One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
Fred Rogers
#44. Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.
Jennifer E. Smith
#45. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Andy Warhol
#46. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died.
R.J. Palacio
#47. Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.
Riley Keough
#48. One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.
Linda Dillow
#49. I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
Danny Masterson
#50. Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
Ivy Lee
#51. By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
Leo Strauss
#52. Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Edmund Hillary
#53. Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#54. The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.
Brian Wilson
#55. If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.
Danny DeVito
#56. For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.
Yasmin Paige
#57. The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.
Allie Burke
#59. The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
Anish Kapoor
#60. When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
Tanya Masse
#61. Politics, kinship, and craft also happen to embrace some of the most important things in life: caring about your influence on the world, connecting meaningfully with others, and working hard to create something worthwhile.
Sarah Thornton
#62. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#63. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#64. 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
#65. The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
Tim Hansel
#69. You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
Sam Altman
#70. Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.
Jim Butcher
#71. 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
#72. My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.
Rob Lowe
#73. A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.
Neil Strauss
#74. There are many urgent things in our lives each day, but the most important things are hardly ever urgent. That's why we need to identify them, give them priority, and place them at the center of our lives.
Power Of Moms
#75. One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.
Deborah Brown
#76. The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.
Emily Oster
#77. As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
Ed Pastor
#78. God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.
Kevin DeYoung
#79. One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.
Eugene Cernan
#80. I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#81. Everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually has to teach us that you have to air your views and bring them to the table with people - with whom you disagree very much.
Rebecca Goldstein
#82. Among the most important things to remember about evolution - and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors - is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To
David Quammen
#83. You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#84. In life, we always search outside for unimportant things and ignore the most important things, which are inside us.
Debasish Mridha
#85. I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.
Heather Headley
#86. Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have
Dennis Prager
#87. We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away.
Kevin DeYoung
#88. Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Barbara Bush
#89. There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.
Madeline Levine
#90. One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
Bryant McGill
#91. For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
Marianne Williamson
#92. Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
Nate Berkus
#93. Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
#94. One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
Karen Mills
#95. The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
Stephen Covey
#96. The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
#97. Listening is one of the most important things a brand can do online. If your brand is just broadcasting its own agenda, it isn't truly engaging in a conversation.
Jeremy Goldman
#98. Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#99. I do struggle because I'm attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
Tom Ford
#100. Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
Gary Zukav
