Significance Quotes

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance.

God gave you a special purpose, do not see yourself as insignificant

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.

Never do anything local or insignificant

After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.

[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life.

Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.