Top 155 Imperative Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Imperative Quotes from famous people such as Jim Cooper, Kay Ivey, Frances McDormand, Mira Nair, Jeff Bewkes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

With our national savings rate well below one-percent,

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
Jim Cooper
It is imperative for our own safety and welfare and for the sake of the economy that we put COVID-19 behind us and get on with our lives.
Kay Ivey
My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there’s this monster – this tiger or lion – that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn’t stop. It doesn’t matter if they become men or women.
Frances McDormand
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn’t really exist in a Hollywood game.
Mira Nair
Cultivating diversity in all its forms – of our content, products, and people – is one of our most important business imperatives.
Jeff Bewkes
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one’s life.
Ruben Hinojosa
There’s a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they’re serving.
Jacqueline Novogratz
As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Alain Dehaze
Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities – as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.
Charles Kennedy
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
Sandra Day O’Connor
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant
I have been very encouraged by President Obama’s call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama’s intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
Ban Ki-moon
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
Lucy Larcom
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
My routine while filming a movie is so basic: wake up, work, shower, sleep. I try to cut all the things that aren’t absolutely imperative, so I can be 100 percent when I get to set the next day. I just feel and work better that way.
Camila Morrone
As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
Evan Bayh
Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
Jo Ann Davis
Our planet’s lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
Ban Ki-moon
‘Man up’ is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Christine Pelosi
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
James Heckman
I think it’s imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you’re passionate about, and if you haven’t found that ‘spark’ yet, if you’re not sure what you want to do with your lives – be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries – such as Libya and Sudan – which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
John Linder
Whoever utters ‘Kafkaesque’ has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka’s devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.
Cynthia Ozick
‘Eternal inflation,’ as it’s called – the endless generation of new universes – may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
Seth Shostak
I made my money with software – encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today – and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
Hasso Plattner
You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
Robyn Davidson
Diversity, I think, has become a real business imperative at the very top with CEOs who are facing massive disruption.
Julie Sweet
Challenges of historic import threaten America’s future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Evan Bayh
I think it’s imperative to have faith or religion, because it’s good to have morals, to be kind to others.
Tinie Tempah
It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
Sander Levin
My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so Go

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
Joel Salatin
Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
Aga Khan IV
It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.
Anand Mahindra
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.
Elliott Abrams
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
Michelle Malkin
Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
Chris Sacca
Yes, health care is an election issue. It’s also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.
Krystal Ball
I think every administration has a settling-in process. And there’s always an adjustment between what you can say during a campaign and what you find are the possibilities and the imperatives when you win the election and you enter the Oval Office.
Lee Hsien Loong
The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good… but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
Emily Martin
It is imperative that the United States lead in preventing Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. That requires vigorously enforcing the Iran deal while leaving all options on the table, including military force if necessary.
Brad Schneider
It is imperative that Congress provides adequately funded and stable budgets which allow us to support Afghan personnel and ensure that Afghanistan does not become a breeding ground for terrorists again.
Elise Stefanik
Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It’s imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.
Kevin O’Leary
For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
Paul Polman
Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
Doris Roberts
A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.
John Sarbanes
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
Martin McGuinness
Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black – and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
Susie Orbach
‘Government gets things right’ does not encourage sales. ‘Government makes another blunder’ does encourage sales, so there’s a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
John Major
And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the – with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it’s absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz