Quotes about Significance
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
- GK Chesterton
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
- Charles Spurgeon
Time is more important to me than money.
- George Lucas
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.
- Dorothy Day
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
- Mother Teresa
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.
- Seth Godin
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
- Joseph Addison
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle
In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
- Jesse Jackson