importance quotes

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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

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

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more 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.

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

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

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

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.