Important Quotes to Inspire and Reflect Upon

"If everything is very important, then nothing is important"

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important"

John Carmack, Scientist

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"

John Templeton, Businessman

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Before I speak, I have something important to say"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Oil and gas have been important drivers of Norway's economic growth, but we must invest in renewable energy and new technologies to secure a sustainable future"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop"

Dorothy Height, Activist