Quotes about Insignificance

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…

What may appear weak and insignificant to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.