W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is important for Islamic states is the spreading of fundamentalism. In order to survive inside Iran, they [the Mullahs] need to export their ideas. Our friends the Saudis finance it too. Their regime is not compatible with the modern era, but they have activists in Turkey who are trying to impose their ideology.”
“What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.”
“What is important here is cash. [A] leader needs money, gold and diamonds to run his hundred castles, feed his thousand women, buy cars for the millions of boot-lickers under his heels, reinforce the loyal military forces and still have enough change left to deposit into his numbered Swiss accounts.”
Source: Voices of Zaire: Rhetoric or Reality
“What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?”
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
“What is important in life is to love.”
“What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.”
Source: The Meditative Mind
“What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else's.”
“What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are”
“What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.”
“What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.”
“What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.”
“What is important is how you behave, not knowing why you do.”
Source: Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
“What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.”
“What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.”
“What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.”
“What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.”
“What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.”
“What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.”
“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”
“What is important is remembering that we are here on this planet to surrender, have patience, and allow ourselves to love and be loved. Crises help us to learn these things.”--Lynn Robinson”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.”
Source: Daughter of the East
“What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.”
Source: An Introduction to Cybernetics. (1. Publ.)
“What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things.”
“What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.”
“What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.”
“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.”
“What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.”
“What is important is that we have the ability to create.”
“What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.”
“What is important is that we stop and realize, "Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.”
“What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth.”
“What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.”
“What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.”
Source: An American Childhood
“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”
“What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.”
“What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.”
“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
“What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.”
“What is important is (to know) what is not important!”
“What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.”
“What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.”
“What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.”
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
“What is important is to surround yourself with those who are happy and able to smile.”
Source: To Tempt a Scoundrel
“What is important is to win.”
“What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.”
“What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas
“What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.”