Top 40 Important Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “CAN is 100 times more important than IQ.”

— Max Lucado

2. “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

3. “The most important actions are never comfortable.”

— Tim Ferriss

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4. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

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5. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Brian Tracy

6. “The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!”

— Denis Waitley

7. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”

— Daniel Handler

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8. “Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.”

— Pablo Escobar

9. “The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.”

— Charles Darwin

10. “Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.”

— Joel Osteen

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11. “Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.”

— Genichi Taguchi

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12. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

— Charles Dickens

13. “There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.”

— Leo Tolstoy

14. “It’s so important to do something every day that will make you happy.”

— Bob Ross

15. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”

— Jackie Mason

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16. “Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

17. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.”

— Tim Ferriss

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18. “Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.”

— Michael Jordan

19. “Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

— Warren Buffett

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20. “The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.”

— Steve Jobs

21. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

22. “Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

23. “Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”

— Tim Ferriss

24. “Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.”

— Ratan Tata

25. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

26. “To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.”

— Joel Osteen

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27. “What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.”

— Tim Ferriss

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28. “To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”

— Alan Watts

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29. “It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.”

— George Orwell

30. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

31. “The most important things are the hardest to say.”

— Stephen King

32. “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”

— Italo Calvino

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33. “Music is a mantra that soothes the soul. It’s therapeutic. It’s something our body has to have. It’s very important to understand the power of music.”

— Michael Jackson

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34. “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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35. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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36. “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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37. “Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

38. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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39. “Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,”

— Tim Ferriss

40. “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

— Douglas Adams

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