Top 100 Quotes About Importance Of Life
#2. Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
William Hazlitt
#3. All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jenny McCarthy
#5. Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.
Dogen
#6. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
John William Heisman
#7. A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#8. Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.
Lorrie Moore
#9. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Os Guinness
#10. The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
Thomas Young
#11. In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#12. Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
Samuel Johnson
#13. One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected.
Theodore Dalrymple
#14. 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.
Karen Blixen
#15. I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.
Albert Camus
#16. If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.
Frederick Lenz
#17. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia E. Barr
#18. I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Moby
#19. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
Indu Muralidharan
#20. Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#21. A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
Michel De Montaigne
#22. Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go 'Uh, I'm kind of an asshole.
Louis C.K.
#23. Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo
Haruki Murakami
#25. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.
William Faulkner
#27. Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of 'going somewhere' and 'doing something with your life'. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn't count for much.
James Rebanks
#28. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Henry James
#29. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
Enrique Penalosa
#30. I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.
Herbie Hancock
#31. We all have to die, Johnrock - every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.
Terry Goodkind
#32. You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.
Garrison Keillor
#33. Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
Aldous Huxley
#34. Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life might turn on the next few moments if he could find the right words, and make himself say them.
Joe Abercrombie
#35. Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.
Ken Robinson
#36. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#37. In the rush of life, it is quite easy to forget what's important. As cliche as this is, it's easy to take life for granted when you don't have time to focus properly. It is only when life diverts from the 'plan' that we suddenly take time to see what is really important.
Leigh Hershkovich
#38. We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.
Jane Bown
#39. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
Thomas Dreier
#40. No matter how many indigested actions a female appears to exhibit to the male psyche, she is still a woman. She's the specialty of the house. However she doesn't come at a sale price. Considering her value, a woman is one of the best deals life has to offer.
Will Leamon
#41. Money is an important tool for modern life. Money will not make you happy, but you can use money wisely to enhance your happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#42. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.
Umberto Eco
#43. I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
Joseph Pulitzer
#44. War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
#45. Poor soul, you will never know anything
of real importance. You will not uncover
even one of life's secrets. Although all religions
promise paradise, take care to create your own
paradise here and now on earth.
Omar Khayyam
#46. In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Morrissey
#47. The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.
John Eldredge
#48. The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.
Jack Nicklaus
#49. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
James Boswell
#51. The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
Maria Montessori
#52. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.
Megan Thomason
#53. Dogen Zenj rightly said that, 'Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken, take heed and not squander life'.
Reiju Gensho
#54. The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
#55. Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.
Jane Clayson Johnson
#56. Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
#58. I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.
Jack Jason
#59. Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins
#60. Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
Alex Trebek
#61. What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#62. As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
David Carson
#63. 'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.
Thalia
#64. As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
Naveen Jain
#66. Every day in every life is of the most profound importance.
Dean Koontz
#67. I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.
Michael Hastings
#68. I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.
Muhtar Kent
#69. All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#70. A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.
Denzel Washington
#71. The importance of friends few people would be able to recognize some friend comes in our life readily and consequently they goes but life doesn't stop for anyone but only one thing remains that is their memories which cannot be wipe out as you guys always remain in my heart and we are the best
Avinash Advani
#72. An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.
Randall Jarrell
#73. The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
Bruno Bettelheim
#74. Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams
#75. Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.
Anne Foy
#76. Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.
Steve Pavlina
#77. Deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness. The only thing that ultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential
Eckhart Tolle
#78. Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#79. He also knows the importance of intuition.
Paulo Coelho
#80. No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
#81. Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.
Ayn Rand
#82. There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time
Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it.
(from The Mirror of Her Dreams)
Stephen R. Donaldson
#83. You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
Steffi Graf
#84. Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.
Muhtar Kent
#85. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.
Mark Sayers
#86. But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.
Mary Balogh
#87. When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.
Sung Kang
#88. When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body.
Rossana Condoleo
#89. He expected nothing more from life. Not because he was disappointed or embittered. He expected nothing because there was nothing of importance that he had not already experienced. He possessed all the happiness that a person could find. He loved and was loved. Unconditionally.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#90. I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.
Cherie Blair
#91. It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.
Johnny Weir
#92. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde
#93. The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Sun Tzu
#94. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#95. Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
Victoria Osteen
#96. The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life,
Barbara Kruger
#97. I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
Theodore Roethke
#98. As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
James F. Cooper
#99. It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
Alfred North Whitehead
#100. War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization.
Friedrich Von Bernhardi
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