Meaningful Quotes · Page 30

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a…

— Simon Mainwaring

“If someone is happy without you, he is meaningful and you disturbing him is meaningless”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

— Don DeLillo

I'm the type to get out and rage once let loose from the chains, I'm not a slave to vanity because the…

— Raghib Clitso

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us…

— Anonymous

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make…

— Richard Dawkins

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

— Judi Dench

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and…

— Robert Mueller

“Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful.…

— Zadie Smith

Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something…

— Jon Foreman

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things…

— Paul Tournier

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a…

— Eric Williams

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I…

— Dan Gilroy

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most…

— Audre Lorde

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?…

— Robin Williams

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult…

— James C. Collins

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting…

— Lauren Bush

Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a…

— Kenneth D. Wald

“Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to…

— Mark Manson

I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did…

— Michelle Alexander

What separates people that create from the people that don't is just one's ability to take action despite the fear, you know?…

— Antony Hegarty

“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often…

— Alain de Botton

“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that…

— Nikki Rowe

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially…

— Ansel Adams

“Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it…

— Hugh MacLeod

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

— Bryant H. McGill

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope…

— Arca

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life…

— Donald Miller

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

— Phil Elvrum

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

— Douglas McCulloh

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move…

— John Baldessari

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

— Emmy Rossum

For life to be meaningful, add a little sacrifice, subtract anger and hatred, multiply friends and divide love for everyone to share.

— Anonymous

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

— Terry Pratchett

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.…

— Nelson Mandela

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at…

— William James

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

— Anthony H. Cordesman

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon