Quotes about Insignificant

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I want to do something important." "It's the little things that make all the difference in the world. The kind words we speak and the simple things we do for people.

The man of self regards the loss of his wealth, his comforts, or his life as the greatest calamities which can befall him. The man of principle looks upon these incidents as comparatively insignificant, and not to be weighed with loss of character, loss of Truth.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

Little things affect little minds.

Little things affect little minds.

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Instead, we feel like ashes, leftovers from a bygone fire, blown aimlessly by the wind. We feel like we're not even important enough to be forgotten, because we were never known in the first place.