Insignificant Quotes - Page 17

• 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

  Men, Self, Common Sense

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Medicine, Attention, Merit

  Medical Observations 5, Ch. 2

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• Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Christian, Home, Bridges

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• Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Believe, Differences, Doubt

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Wind, Half, Dozen

  "Unappreciated Shakespeare". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine, Christmas Number, December 09, 1882.

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• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Details, Life Is, Mere

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.230, Discovery House

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• My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Records, Creation, Accepting

  Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

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• Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

  Yelena Bonner

  Inspirational, People, Littles

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• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

  Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

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• The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Political

  George Bernard Shaw "The Progressive" (1910)

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• The insignificant labor, the great create.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Work, Labor

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

  Arthur Miller

  God, Children, Believe

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• If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Light, Meaningless Things, Stronger

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Love, Husband, Night

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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• Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you with an infinite love.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Love You, Dark

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• Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Father, Details

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.24, Tyndale House

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• Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

  Ruby Dee

  Greed, Isms, Kind

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• I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, I Believe, Concern

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Jun 09, 2014

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• I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Fantastic, Bigger

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Glaciers, Alps

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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