Importance

Famous quotes containing the word importance:

“The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)