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

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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

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.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

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

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

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

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

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

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

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

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.