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Quotes About Significance

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
~ Anita Roddick
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
~ Eckhart Tolle
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
~ C.S. Lewis
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
~ Khalil Gibran
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
~ Thomas Paine
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
~ Nizar Qabbani
When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
~ Bob Dole
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
~ Carl Jung
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
~ James A. Garfield
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
~ Thomas Adams
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
~ Tim Ferriss
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
~ Russell Hoban
What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
~ Albert Einstein
A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.
~ Jim Rohn
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
~ John C. Maxwell
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
~ Ted Turner
The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.
~ Joe Vitale
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
~ Anne Frank
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
~ Hal Elrod