Quotes About Significance

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A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for some perhaps but comforting to me.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

Money counts more than you think.