Insignificant Quotes

#1. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble.

P.D. James

#3. Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing!

Ripley Patton

#4. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle

Becki Tedford

#5. Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Annie Besant

#6. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.

Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Franz Grillparzer

#8. I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#9. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Stevenson Willis

#10. 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

#11. The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

Shane Maloney

#12. Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life.

Andrew James Pritchard

#13. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Like many people who feel themselves to be insignificant, even laughable, Quirrell had a latent desire to make the world sit up and notice him. Quirrell

J.K. Rowling

#15. Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere - somewhere - there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it. She

Mary Balogh

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God:

Frederick Lenz

#18. We were just two stars in the endless night sky, as dazzling and dwarfed and stupendous and insignificant as that made us.

Leanne Hall

#19. Himself an ugly man, insignificant
of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#21. The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Terry Goodkind

#22. Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#24. Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

Poul Henningsen

#25. Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

Dot Richardson

#26. We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.

Stephen Fry

#27. It is not I, but religion that worships man, although religion, or rather theology, denies this; it is not I, an insignificant individual, but religion itself that says: God is man, man is God

Ludwig Feuerbach

#28. Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Juvenal

#29. Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

Robin Sharma

#30. If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!

Leo Tolstoy

#31. When the archeologists find this place they'll destroy history. Mankind will attempt to bury this information but we will ensure there is a leak. Intel this valuable makes insignificant fame starved humans grand masters of legend.Secrets are best retold to hungry ears.

Poppet

#32. What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

James Boswell

#33. Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road.

Victoria Moran

#35. It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant ...

L.M. Montgomery

#36. God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

Max Anders

#37. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

James A. Baldwin

#38. The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

John Updike

#39. Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

Tavis Smiley

#40. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

John Henry Jowett

#41. We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

Bill Johnson

#42. We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.

George Eliot

#43. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#44. Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

Jonas Mekas

#45. In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#46. The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

Ernie J Zelinski

#47. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#48. Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego - my sense of belonging to this universe - and made all else seem insignificant by comparison. "It's

Hugh Howey

#49. Faithful death that never forgets in the press of work the most insignificant of its children.

Joseph Conrad

#50. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#51. The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare.

G.K. Chesterton

#52. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

Rudyard Kipling

#53. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#54. If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

T.I.

#55. He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.

Sebastian Faulks

#56. To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love ... A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

George Hamilton

#57. If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Justina Chen

#58. The greatest of blessings can come from what appear to be the smallest and most insignificant of things. Don't discredit anything or anyone. One person, one tiny thing, one little shift can change your life in enormous ways.

Patience W. Smith

#59. However insignificant the frictional and heating effects in a clock may be from the practical point of view, there can be no doubt that the second attitude, which does not neglect them, is the more fundamental one, even when we are faced with the regular motion of a clock that is driven by a spring.

Erwin Schrodinger

#60. Love doesn't excuse our faults: it makes them insignificant.

Marty Rubin

#61. Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities ... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

Alexander Theroux

#62. The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

Rudolf Diesel

#63. How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.

Josh Lanyon

#64. I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

Rick Yancey

#65. No matter how goofy or insignificant your church may seem, fellowship in that body of believers is fellowship with God.

Kevin DeYoung

#66. How many people must there be, who are completely unknown in this world, but they are famous in the sky.
There are people on this earth who may seem insignificant to you and me. But they are beloved to Allah and their name is constantly mentioned among the angels in the sky.

Nouman Ali Khan

#67. If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. I love you," I said. "No matter what she says about it, no matter if it's only with my insignificant human heart. Even when they burn my body, I'll love you.

Sarah J. Maas

#69. Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

John Heider

#70. An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Emanuel Lasker

#71. Detailed scientific arguments by the authors present a serious challenge to the expositors of the Copernican Principle (that man is merely an impure lump of carbon crawling about on the surface of an insignificant speck of cosmic dust).

David Medved

#72. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

America Ferrera

#73. Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Deepak Chopra

#74. I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

Gregory David Roberts

#75. The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,

Marcel Proust

#76. No living thing is insignificant.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#77. 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

#78. I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.

Rex Pickett

#79. There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#80. The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

Teri Hatcher

#81. Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal ... It is the most perpetual people of the earth ...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#82. No gesture done out of free will and pure intention, is insignificant.

Shaine Lake

#83. As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Peter Cook

#84. It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Michael Josephson

#85. It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.

Harper Lee

#86. Not everything that's small is insignificant.

Adra

#87. Blah, blah, blah. Heard it all before. I'm an American, you moron. We wrote the book on insignificant peasants making good. I'm also not an idiot. And I'm also not buying it." I

Gini Koch

#88. We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Hugo Chavez

#89. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.

Carl Sagan

#90. I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant.

S.A. Tawks

#91. Faith takes root in the insignificant.

Nancy Willard

#92. 'Tiempos del Mundo' is insignificant as far as the newspaper market is concerned here in Buenos Aires.

Pepe Eliaschev

#93. Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap.

Matthew Donnelly

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

John Adams

#95. When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.

Brandon J. Barnard

#96. I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.

Dr. Seuss

#97. 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

#98. [He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

Franz Kafka

#99. How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#100. In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

James E. Faust