Quotes About Significance

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

place is not just where one happens to find oneself. Place is imbued with history, humanity, and power—the complex relationships and interactions that make us who we are.

If', it's a little word, but casts an awfully big shadow.

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.