Quotes about Significance
Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.
— Dave Ferguson
Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.
— Rachel Hauck
Choose what's important to you, Macy. Not for the moment, but for eternity.
— Rachel Hauck
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
— Randy Alcorn
I want to know that I have affected people for eternity. I believe I am. I believe once someone knows Christ as their personal savior, I've affected eternity. I matter 10 billion years from now.
— David Green
the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.
— Karl Barth
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
— Victor Hugo
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
— GK Chesterton