Importance Quotes - Page 4

• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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• And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

  Malik Yoba

  Mother, Father, Helping

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• It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Strong, Rejection, Important

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  Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Greatness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868). “Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.28

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• 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

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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  A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

  Harvey Mackay

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Understanding

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• Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Forever, Important

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• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, People

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Liberty, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.64, BookBaby

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• Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

  Teresa of Avila

  Journey, Suffering, Whole

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.127, Whitaker House

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• A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.230

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• I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Thinking, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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• 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.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Parenting

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Integrity, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98

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• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Teaching

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• If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mirrors, Self, Want

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• In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

  Charles Dickens

  Age, Matter, Fairytale

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.15543, Delphi Classics

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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

  Horace

  Humor, Matter, Jest

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