Important Quotes

I feel good today. I think this is going to be a very important step to help the people of Liberia, ... As President Bush has said and underlined, we want to help those who are suffering here -- and there are quite a number of them -- and by working with ECOMIL, we are going to make it happen.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Children make your life important.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The Supreme Court made an important pronouncement against political corruption. It provided a useful tool, the disgorgement remedy, for use in civil litigation as a deterrent to the payment of bribes to secure government business.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

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

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It is important that we continue to build our capacity to respond to public emergencies, which could include natural disasters, a viral pandemic or a major disruption to our province's energy supply or communications infrastructure.

I never expected to be anybody important.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.