None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
Ronald Reagan

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs

Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas

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

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett

Laughter is America's most important export.
Walt Disney