Quotes About Significance

Coincidence makes sense only with you.

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

As Dallas Willard has suggested, Christians must be weighed, not just counted.

He remembered a story he'd once heard about a girl throwing starfish into the ocean. "An old man comes along and says to her, 'Don't bother. There's millions of them out here. You can't save them. What you're doing won't make a difference.' She looks at the starfish in her hand and says, 'It makes a difference to this one.' And she throws it into the ocean. Lily was one of my starfish.

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.

Life is very important to Americans.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Never had so little done so much for so many.

A guy walks into a psychologist's convention with a banana in his pocket.When asked about the significance of this he says;well,they were all out of grapes.

Whatever success you are having will never completely fulfill you. A life of significance — of really mattering — is yours for the taking, and the process I describe in this book will work for you.

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There's seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There's more of us than boomers or gen X. We're also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that's the group you want to build your audience around.

He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Over time, swimming has shifted from mere mechanics and survival—a military skill, practiced by men—to achieve a more intangible significance: a form of recreation, a pleasure, something that can sharpen your spiritual as well as physical health. This idea of swimming for wellness, emotional resonance, whole personhood, rings true to me. The physical is intertwined with the psychological.

It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.

that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion. I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.

how much a thing means to one man and how little it means to another ain't the right way to look at a business matter.