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Significance Quotes

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

Authors on Significance Quotes: Mason Cooley Benjamin Cardozo Timothy Keller John C. Maxwell Charlie Haden John Macmurray Peter Warlock George Parsons Lathrop Rick Warren Dietrich Bonhoeffer John Cleese Ivan Turgenev Rabindranath Tagore Andrew Williams Mpho Koaho Daniel Handler Freya Stark Zoe Saldana Clifford Geertz Jesse Jackson, Jr. Phil Pringle George Steiner Robert Haugen Douglas Adams John Ortberg Haruki Murakami Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lucian Freud Danny Trejo Kevin Kline Hannah Arendt Ariel Dorfman Cynthia Daignault
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SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
John C. Maxwell

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Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.
Mike Murdock

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What will matter is not your success but your significance.
Michael Josephson

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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
Leo Tolstoy

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Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
Joseph Cornell

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Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
Clifford Geertz

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Significance is inherent in the human body.
Julia Kristeva

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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud

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Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
David Lynch

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Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.
Bob Buford

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Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
Alex Hirsch

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You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
Charlie Haden

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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
Edith Wharton

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My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.
LeCrae

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There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.
Cynthia Daignault

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If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.
Ken Ham

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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
Frank McCourt

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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
Jane Addams

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That has less significance than a dog's fart.
Mao Zedong

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I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.
Bob Parsons

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Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
John Wooden

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The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
Jesse Jackson, Jr.

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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
Leon Trotsky

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Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
Peter Warlock

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To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
Philip Graham Ryken

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The significance of life is living.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel Dorfman

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A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Diane Setterfield

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The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
Mason Cooley

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There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.
Danny Trejo

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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
Zelda Fitzgerald

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A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Stefan Zweig

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Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.
Phil Pringle

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Henry Miller

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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
Benjamin Cardozo

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every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
Freya Stark

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We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
A.J. Ayer

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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
John Cleese

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What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
John Macmurray

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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
Timothy Keller

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Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
Katharine Cornell

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I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.
Romany Malco

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Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?
Timothy Keller

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The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
Rabindranath Tagore

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The desire to be significant casts a pall.
Mason Cooley

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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner

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When you pursue significance, success can find you.
Dov Seidman