Significance Quotes

True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

~ Shelly Crane

The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.

~ Shelly Crane

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do – you will always see that you’re more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance.

~ A.j. Darkholme

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

~ Morton Shaevitz

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

~ Alain De Botton

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

we all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive.If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.

~ John Brockman

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

~ Frederick Buechner

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

~ Stanley Kubrick

I keep saying there's no Choice, and what I've meant is that you can't choose: you have no right or ability to select one of the two alternatives. But I didn't go far enough. There's no Choice because the Choice itself is wrong. It's a false dilemma. The alternatives are not alternatives at all. Long versus short, quiet versus heroic: they're the same. In the scope of infinity, in a universe with no edge, human history is a flare and human consciousness is a blink. All lives are short and all lives are quiet.But all lives are glorious too, Cal. To live! To live like a human! You are ordinary and extraordinary all at once. You have a heart that contracts and relaxes and beats out your moments. You are alive and you know you are alive. Your too-short time is long e

~ Kate Hattemer

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

~ Megan Mccafferty

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

~ Lev Grossman

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

~ Shane Claiborne

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

~ A.j. Darkholme

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignor

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

~ Stephen King

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards - which should be its motivation to love more - however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.

~ Criss Jami

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

~ Shelly Crane

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

there is no significance in life without struggle

~ Lolly Daskal

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

~ Kayla Severson

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

~ Marquita Burke-Dejesus

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

~ Jackie Robinson

It was the artists who finally gave their times and places significance. Paul felt the presence of their ghosts out in the world, just as felt them in his office and in his head. The air was full of them. They were everywhere and always would be.

~ Jonathan Galassi

When people can't handle your light, it's because they haven't yet discovered their own, and you are a reminder of that. Don't take it personal, and don't shrink or hide. Either they will choose to shine or grab a pair of shades.

~ Catrice M. Jackson

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

~ Daniel Wallock

Miracle centered gospel has reduced Christian significance and essence.

~ Sunday Adelaja