Top 100 The Most Important Things Quotes

#1. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.

Douglas Adams

#2. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

AVA.

#3. The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#4. In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. Money is a most important thing in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Renata Adler

#8. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

#9. Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and purpose to your existence, purging and de-cluttering will become a natural process.

Cary David Richards

#10. It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Geri Halliwell

#11. We give our children everything, because they are the most important things in our lives. They are why we exist, to give life to others so that they can carry forward what we have started.

David Jackson

#12. The most important thing is to DARE.

Maya Angelou

#13. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.

Carl R. Trueman

#14. I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

Blanka Vlasic

#15. The most important thing you think is what you think about God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

James Spader

#17. We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Ellen Stofan

#18. The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

Vin Diesel

#19. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#20. Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Hesiod

#21. The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.

Danny Meyer

#22. I've always remembered the celebrant at my friend Eileen's wedding saying that one of the most important things in marriage is for the woman to abandon herself to her husband,' Em said. 'Not to submit to him, or obey his every wish, but just to trust him completely with her heart.

Danielle Hawkins

#23. One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Mike DeWine

#24. Study the scriptures and study the mortals who have been most consistently accurate about the most important things. When your freedom and your eternal welfare are at stake, your information best be accurate.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Jim DeMint

#26. I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

Beyonce Knowles

#27. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

Larry Page

#28. Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

Iris Apfel

#29. I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

Darcey Steinke

#30. To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

Edward Hopper

#31. One may be doing all good and right things, but if they aren't done with good intentions, they are futile. Having right intentions is the most important! Even the prayers are of no use if not done in the right earnest!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#32. I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

Jenny Lawson

#33. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.

Mike Bickle

#34. The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

Elise Broach

#35. The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde

#36. One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

John Mackey

#37. Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#38. The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

#39. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#40. The most important thing is presentation.

David Copperfield

#41. The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

Lei Jun

#42. There are so many things I would like to say. However, the most important thing that I do is allow myself to unplug, spend time with the people I love most, and not take the little things for granted.

Chelsea Krost

#43. 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.

Alan Watts

#44. Laughing is such a pure and natural thing I try to laugh every day. Think that's one of the most important things in life.

Bill Kaulitz

#45. Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

#46. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,

Mark Zuckerberg

#47. 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

#48. I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

Wayne Rooney

#49. One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

Lisa Ling

#50. The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Bruce Barton

#51. As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them
"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

Chaim Potok

#52. The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.

Stephen King

#53. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

Michelle Yeoh

#54. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'

Estelle Getty

#55. Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Paul Rudd

#56. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Janet Lane-Claypon

#57. Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

Simon Travaglia

#58. You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Li Ka-shing

#59. I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

Neil Gaiman

#60. That was one of the saddest things about people
their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Alexandra Adornetto

#61. NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.

Jimmie Johnson

#62. Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" -Annabelle

Lauren Wolk

#63. The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that's true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it's true of what we need to teach.

Alfie Kohn

#64. Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Richard Ford

#65. People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

Don King

#66. 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

Richard Koch

#67. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#68. The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Keith Rabois

#69. It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

#70. The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#71. The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Henry Ford

#72. One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

Sam Trammell

#73. In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

Townsend Harris

#74. There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.

Ava Dellaira

#75. Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.

Curtis Strange

#76. Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.

Tom Coburn

#77. Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Jerry Seinfeld

#78. Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

Zac Posen

#79. The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

Alan Moore

#80. I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

Andy Goldsworthy

#81. One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

Marat Safin

#82. Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.

Zak Bagans

#83. The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don't have these with someone, you don't have anything.

C. JoyBell C.

#84. As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

Madeline Miller

#85. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#86. To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

Nora Ephron

#87. Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Carlo Ancelotti

#88. Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#89. Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

Clint Eastwood

#90. The most important things aren't always in the main story; sometimes the real meaning is scribbled in the margins.

Isabelle Rowan

#91. The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

Billie Jean King

#92. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

Joel Spolsky

#93. The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

David Millar

#94. No bread. That's the most important thing.

Heidi Klum

#95. The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their connections, you are so taken up by the chanciness of all's that happened and by all that could and will happen next.

Richard Ford

#96. One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

#97. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

#98. Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Ian McKellen

#99. One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.

Albert Einstein

#100. The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Randy Couture

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