Quotes About Significance

El fracaso es la medida de una vida bien llevada. Y la única forma de vivir sin fracaso es no servir de nada a nadie.

It's not what you do; it's why you do it that makes the difference.

Disappointment is unmet expectations, and the more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

Disappointment is unmet expectations. The more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing ' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you cry, and so does a doorknob.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

She saw him as Eros, but Ferrante was convinced that the statue represented Mors, the personification of death. Later that double identity seemed significant to her. When had love become synonymous with death?

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East — to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them — who were above such trifling.

At present our only true names are nicknames. I knew a boy who, from his peculiar energy, was called "Buster" by his playmates, and this rightly supplanted his Christian name. Some travelers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

Some men wonder at the monuments of the west and the east - to know who built them. For my part I should like to know who, in those days, did not build them, who were above such trifling

El efecto de un buen gobierno es hacer que la vida tenga más valor, el de una mal gobierno, que tenga menos valor Podemos permitirnos que el ferrocarril y todo lo meramente material se devalúe, porque ello nos lleva únicamente a vivir de formar más sencilla y económica, pero imaginad que se devaluara la propia vida.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.