Quotes about Insignificance
the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under
— George Eliot
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Jonathan Edwards
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…
— LM Montgomery
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room
— Robin Sharma
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
— Virginia Woolf
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson