Quotes About Significance

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!

Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.