Quotes About Significance

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.