Quotes about Importance

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

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.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

A life is a life no matter how small

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.