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Quotes About Significance

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
~ Jean Renoir
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
~ Jeanne Moreau
The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
~ Jim Rohn
The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.
~ Richard Halverson
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
~ Gertrude Stein
You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.
~ Haddon W. Robinson
One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.
~ Lee Van Cleef
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
~ Leo Rosten
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
~ David Mitchell
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
~ Leo Rosten
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
~ Frank McCourt
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
~ Franklin P. Adams
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
~ Orson Scott Card
…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
~ Roland Barthes
It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.
~ Tracy Chevalier
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
~ James Howard Kunstler
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
~ Jodie Foster
Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.
~ Rob Bell
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~ Carl Jung