Never let the urgent crowd out the important.
Importance Quotes
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.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
May you be born in an important time.
