Welcome to our collection of quotes on important things. Throughout history, individuals from various walks of life have shared profound insights into what truly matters in life. Whether it’s wisdom passed down through generations, reflections from personal experiences, or revelations born out of contemplation, these quotes encapsulate the essence of what it means to prioritize the important things in life.
From renowned philosophers to modern-day thinkers, these quotes offer valuable perspectives on prioritizing relationships, pursuing passions, maintaining balance, and seeking fulfillment. In a world filled with distractions and fleeting moments, these words serve as gentle reminders to focus on what truly enriches our lives and brings us joy, meaning, and purpose.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that delve into the heart of what is truly important. Feel free to explore, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration to incorporate these insights into your own journey.
Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That’s an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don’t want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you’d rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument. Ed Sheeran
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. Frank Abagnale
Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. James Taylor
You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world – what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation. Yuval Noah Harari
Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse. Henry Cloud
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. Peter Drucker
The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don’t expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. Chinua Achebe
Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing. Steve Irwin
The important thing, is to believe in a better future. Ryan Babel
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits. Yemi Osinbajo
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison. Virat Kohli
The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. Tom Sturridge
The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. Michael Gove
Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what’s most beautiful about you and to hide what’s less beautiful. Sonia Rykiel
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you. Sushant Singh Rajput
Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. Frank Ocean
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. Henry Moore
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things. Patrick Kavanagh
The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. Guy Kawasaki
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. Evo Morales
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. George Steinbrenner
This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design’s sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots – I design for customers. Giorgio Armani
It’s always been the most important thing for me to enjoy my cricket. AB de Villiers
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Johnny Depp
The most important thing is story-telling. It’s as singular and old-fashioned as that. David Soul
The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn’t going to do any invasion with my face. Diane von Furstenberg
The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different. Danny Meyer
One of the things I always thought about as a young coach was finding solutions to things that happened, but the most important thing I always referred to was never giving in. Alex Ferguson
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. John D. Rockefeller
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Saint Teresa of Avila
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come. Anastasia Soare
Its easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor. Ray Kroc
The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself. Louis van Gaal
It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. Pete Seeger
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. Tyler Perry
Family is the most important thing in the world. Princess Diana
If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. Tom Cruise
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality. Mukesh Ambani
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it. Edwin Land
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer! Dave Grohl
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down. Tom Holland
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale. Zig Ziglar
Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I’m happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it. Kevin De Bruyne
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it’s managed responsibly. Tim Berners-Lee
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking. Tom Watson
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have. Dong Dong
The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win. Joe Flacco
I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That’s my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments. Rita Moreno
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it. R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I’ve never been so emotionally ingrained in something – in a person, an object, anything – as I have in snooker. Ronnie O’Sullivan
Being a good husband and father… that’s the most important thing I’m going to do on this earth. Shawn Michaels
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. Queen Victoria
The most important thing is God’s blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. Mohamed Al-Fayed
The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child. Robert Edwards
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time. John McEnroe
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. John Steinbeck
There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice. Karol G
Nobody’s perfect. We make mistakes, but the important thing is we learn from them and move forward. Aroldis Chapman
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do. Barbara Ann Scott
The important thing is not winning, but that we think in a winning way. Gianluca Vialli
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. George Burns
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. Mike Huckabee
The most important thing is there is a foundation and an accountability to a system. Erik Spoelstra
The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life. Mark Manson
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. Etty Hillesum
They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans. Juan Gabriel
Education is the most important thing you can have. Torrey Smith
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it’s the reward for being a seeker in this world. Walter Isaacson
The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be. Lawrence Schiller
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Kim Il-sung
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. Jane Goodall
My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there. Adam Sandler
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. Robert Byrd
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. Thom Yorke
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. Michael J. Fox
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do. John Eldredge
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way. Luka Modric
The very important thing you should have is patience. Jack Ma
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. Yogi Berra
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. Michael Faraday
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. Tennessee Williams
If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from. Michelle Obama
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled. Maya Angelou
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Billie Jean King
The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that’s very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward. Ben Carson
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture. Marilyn Monroe
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind. Stella Adler
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. Kobe Bryant
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you. Aaron Rodgers
It’s hard to give tips to skiers if I don’t know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you’re having fun, then everything else will come easy to you. Lindsey Vonn
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. Victor Papanek
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person. Zinedine Zidane
