Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

I think hygiene is so important.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Children make your life important.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.