Top 100 The Only Important Thing Quotes
#1. Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
James Clavell
#2. Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.'
'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.
David Benioff
#3. The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek
#4. I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it.
Veronica Roth
#5. I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
Joanne Harris
#6. Having your loved ones near you is the only important thing, and everything else has little meaning.
Mikhail Shishkin
#7. I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.
Harry S. Truman
#8. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.
Seyoung Kim
#9. Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.
Emily Procter
#11. Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#12. You know, the only important thing is that there was a person for whom you were the most important being in the world. Everything else is inconsequential.
Mikhail Shishkin
#13. The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
#14. You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#15. To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire
#16. At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us?
David Baldacci
#17. The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane
#18. I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
Paddy Considine
#19. The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Celia Green
#20. If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power's the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#22. You're a very special girl, Penryn. An amazing girl. An I-didn't-even-know-someone-like-you-existed kind of girl. And you deserve someone who treats you like you're the only important thing in his life because you are. Someone who plows his fields and raises pigs just for you.
Susan Ee
#23. But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#24. In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#25. They knew a tremendous number of things - But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?
Hermann Hesse
#26. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
Maya Angelou
#27. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.
Johnny Depp
#28. The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.
John Caudwell
#29. I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.
Paul Bettany
#30. The only thing Christianity can not be ... is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
#31. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.
Paula Wall
#32. The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
Brit Marling
#33. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
#34. It's funny. I used to look up at the stars and feel so small and unimportant. But I've come to realize that the only thing that can ever make you feel alive and important is the one person who takes you for you.
Tillie Cole
#35. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
Pablo Picasso
#36. But the important thing is if there's no adversity or challenges in life, then how can you grow, right? You need to embrace yourself entirely. Have some confidence. Only then can you grow. Only then will you be happy.
Jason W Chan
#37. Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
John Hartford
#38. You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
Roone Arledge
#39. because I know I would do the best job. Maybe the only thing that's important to you is money, but that matters the least to me. Leaders care about the common good, not the self-interest of one selfish man.
E.L. Todd
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford
#44. The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
Neil Peart
#45. not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done. That's the only thing that can make its importance unique.
Peter Thiel
#46. We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do
to look into the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
#47. You think the only thing you can do is leave, but that won't help you. You're forgetting something very important. Actually, you're forgetting two very important things." He paused. "Come to think of it, you're probably forgetting a lot, because you got your head knocked -
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#48. When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath
#49. My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.
Temple Grandin
#50. Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.
Jim Parrack
#51. How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
Albert Camus
#52. It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.
Christo
#53. I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.
Martha Southgate
#54. Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
Olga Korbut
#55. Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it.
Sinead O'Connor
#56. For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
Roger Waters
#57. The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die ... but the forms are dissolved.
Sri Aurobindo
#58. Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.
Luis Suarez
#59. There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
John Berryman
#60. It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.
Paul Graham
#61. A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
Toni Servillo
#62. Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.
Jeff Chu
#63. For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.
Yukio Mishima
#64. Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.
French Montana
#65. Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you - believe it.
C. JoyBell C.
#66. I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.
Yingluck Shinawatra
#67. Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side. This is why we are here.
Jon J. Muth
#68. If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
Siobhan Fahey
#69. Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
Rahul Dravid
#70. I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.
Wendell Berry
#71. It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. Even though I was the only one who could hear it, I felt like I was doing something important.
Joe Pernice
#72. the most important thing about mental health - It hurts just as much as any broken limb or open wound; the only difference is that you cannot physically see it in it's entirety.
Hannah Todd
#73. The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#74. It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
Richard D. James
#75. The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
Dan Wells
#76. Advice for a human.
81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.
82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
Matt Haig
#77. You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#78. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#79. It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.
Stanislaw Lem
#80. Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.
Joss Whedon
#81. I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.
R.A. Salvatore
#82. For example
I wonder
could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
Yann Martel
#83. Guilt is important. It tells us when we've done wrong. There is no such thing as "wrong." There is only that which does not serve you; does not speak the truth about Who You Are, and Who You Choose to Be. Guilt is the feeling that keeps you stuck in who you are not.
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
Mary J. Blige
#85. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.
Mark Lawrence
#86. From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
Adrian Frutiger
#87. I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
Dean Kamen
#88. It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...
Vedang Sati
#89. The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to [ at the feet of Jesus ].
Kevin DeYoung
#90. The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.
Ishmael Beah
#91. The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#92. The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out.
Martin Lewis
#93. The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.
Erich Fromm
#94. The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
#95. The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.
Alan Cohen
#96. The only thing that makes a name important, and yours, is that it's given to you by someone who loves you
Cassandra Clare
#97. Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way ...
James S.A. Corey
#98. Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#99. It is important that we don't let victory rob us of our strength. Simply because we accomplish a great thing doesn't mean the struggle is over. We must continue to improve ourselves and our world. That is the only worthwhile existence.
Donald Meeks
#100. The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
Andre Breton
