Significance Quotes

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

The smallest hair throws its shadow.[Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.