Significance Quotes

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

Nothing of importance happened today.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

History is more interesting than most people think.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

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

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.