Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Every life is special.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Every life is capable of greatness.

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

Life is very precious.

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.

An article of the Democratic faith is that greatness lies in each person.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

The significance of life is living.

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?