Quotes About Significance

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

The end is important in all things.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm. (from the novella, Revenge )

I enjoyed what I saw in Williamsburg. But when something is not shared, it is never as poignant, or as meaningful, or as beautiful as it might have been if it were shared with someone.

things in this life can be separated into two categories: Things that are valuable and things that matter.