Importance Quotes

The first time the emperor Han heard a certain Word he said, It is strange. The second time he said, It is divine. The third time he said, Let the speaker be put to death

When I walk on stage, I’ve got to feel like it’s the most important thing in the world. Also I got to feel like, well, it’s only rock and roll.

Never let the urgent crowd out the important.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of […]

A man is usually as young as he feels, but seldom as important.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.