Quotes about Importance

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." As I have already pointed out, it is this urge that differentiates us from the animals. It is this urge that has been responsible for civilization itself.

The situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side.

Whatever your situation, there is nothing more important on earth than to dwell in the knowledge of Christ and to bring that knowledge to others.

The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.

We are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

Their desire for such honor was keeping them from believing, because you cannot hold the esteem of others to that degree of importance and at the same time believe that God is who he is. It is not possible. As long as people are hung up on honor from other people—reputation, appearing well—they cannot truly believe and trust God.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

My family values are really, really important.