Quotes about Significance

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Why wait to be memorable?

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

God does not love us because we are so valuable; we are valuable because God loves us."

A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.

Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

the miracles were not intended to authenticate the teaching of Jesus, but to surround His life with a guard of honour."20

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.