Insignificant Quotes

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

Important, May, Whatever

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran

God, Knowledge, Person

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

Live, Lost, Find

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Point, View

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

Success, Why, Greedy

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt

Hope, Self, Others

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Cat Stevens

Allah, Become, Earth

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Country, Office, Invention

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Done, General, Industry

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy Carter

Different, Define, Sins

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf

Women, War, Important

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom

Life, Time, Done

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran

Envy, Sacrifice, Venture

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides

Anger, Spring, Often

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley

Time, Seem, Hardly

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Vin Diesel

Beautiful, Father, Done

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur

Life, Time, Questions

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Joyce Carol Oates

Important, Matter, Books

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.
Dick Gregory

Saying, Find, Why

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer

Good, Evil, Group

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Odysseas Elytis

Great, Study, Learn

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer

Thankful, Important, Seems

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
John le Carre

Life, Work, Family

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
Ben Affleck

Life, Dating, Important

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
John Drinkwater

Failure, Poetry, Ask

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Jock Sturges

Media, Aware, Shrinking

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon

Great, Down, Foolish

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Bob Feller

Time, War, Sports

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan

Success, Painful, Achieved

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Catherine Helen Spence

History, Nothing, Young

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