Most Meaningful Quotes

#1. The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

David A. Bednar

#2. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

#3. Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset - time - to what is most meaningful to you.

Randy Komisar

#4. On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

Michael Leunig

#5. So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

Sandra Magsamen

#6. The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Louise Brown

#7. If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#8. The great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as poetry or relationship counselling.

Alain De Botton

#9. That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

Kelly Corrigan

#10. The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.

Adam Grant

#11. Our bodies form a symbol, I think, as powerful as one of Hal's - and it occurs to me that the most meaningful symbols of all must be based on all the different ways two people can embrace.

Neal Shusterman

#12. The most meaningful prayer is kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

Aaron Swartz

#14. Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

Ken Cohen

#15. The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

Nicolas Cage

#16. One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

Tad R. Callister

#17. Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences [ ... ] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.

Terryl L. Givens

#18. The hardest things to do are sometimes the ones that prove most meaningful, but not necessarily the ones we remember most fondly.

Katy Evans

#19. The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within.

Beverly K. Bachel

#20. I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Michael Eisner

#21. Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.

Thomas L. Dumm

#22. Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness ... The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Becky Stark

#23. Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

Hillary Clinton

#24. Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Marianne Williamson

#25. It felt like the most meaningful conversation I had ever had was happening even though no words were exchanged as we looked at each other.

Jay Crownover

#26. The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Richard Louv

#27. Throughout the past decade of ministry work, my most meaningful and rewarding project has been Grace for the Homeschool Mom.

Tamara L. Chilver

#28. you simply need to unchain yourself from the past. Then you may find that you have all the power that you need once the past has been released. To let go of the past may be the most meaningful action you will ever take.

Max Strom

#29. I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Tom Odell

#30. The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.

Bryant McGill

#31. Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

Wilmer Valderrama

#32. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Matisyahu

#33. And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

Nia Vardalos

#34. Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.

Kathleen Battle

#35. As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Lawrence Block

#36. When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

Rita Zahara

#37. If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

Neill Blomkamp

#38. The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#39. Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted effort. It's a process of learning how to succeed with less stress and struggle. It

Charles Duhigg

#40. He's inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ's, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our

Ann Voskamp

#41. Our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

Cheryl Strayed

#42. Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

Alastair Campbell

#43. The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Bill Gates

#44. When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.

Bell Hooks

#45. Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.

Jeff Goins

#46. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven't earned it, who haven't even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.

Bryan Stevenson

#47. Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken.

Chris Matakas

#48. Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Alan Cohen

#49. The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

William Shatner

#50. Emotional intimacy is most meaningful and profoundly felt when we share our true selves with our partner and when we create a loving space for our partner to do the same.

Elaina Marie

#51. To me, this one brief moment proved to be my most meaningful memory at the park because it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours or for a day, then we are doing something worthwhile.

Jack Lindquist

#52. I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

Mitch Horowitz

#53. The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.

Chris Matakas

#54. To love, to be loved, and to be useful: these are the most important elements in a happy, meaningful life, and they can be achieved anywhere.

Syrie James

#55. ... our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

Gudjon Bergmann

#56. Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

Oliver Burkeman

#57. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.

Graeme Simsion

#58. The single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God ... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

Charles R. Swindoll

#59. Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Oerter

#60. I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Jeff Bezos

#61. The important thing is that you find some time every day to "break bread" with those you love most and consistently work at building a richer, more meaningful family life.

Robin S. Sharma

#62. The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

Maynard Webb

#63. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Michelle Kwan

#64. Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Terry Gross

#65. Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

Neal A. Maxwell

#66. And the shitty jobs made the good ones more meaningful. Most people don't land their dream job right out of the gate, which means we all have to start somewhere.

Sophia Amoruso

#67. Love every moment as if every moment is most beautiful.
Welcome every event as if every event is so meaningful.

Debasish Mridha

#68. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#69. What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Paul Kalanithi

#70. When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept at finding the silver lining, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Pooja Ruprell

#71. But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Alex Campbell

#72. Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

Anthony Davis

#73. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Ivan Illich

#74. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Don Roff

#75. As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

Audre Lorde

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

Judi Dench

#77. Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.

Tarthang Tulku

#78. Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#79. The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Viola Spolin

#80. I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other people, and that comes with its pros and cons. I've accepted this is the kind of person that I am, and this is the path I've chosen in life - and I'm stickin' with it.

Steve Grand

#81. Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

Zig Ziglar

#82. Manipulating emotions is the most important function of meaningful art.

Ryan Quinn

#83. But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

Neil Postman

#84. For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

Timothy Ferriss

#85. The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

Phil Mitchell

#86. The worst feeling is pretending you do not care about something, when really it is all you seem to think about.Do not date the most beautiful girl in the world, date the girl that makes your world the most beautiful.

Wiz Khalifa

#87. we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:

Viktor E. Frankl

#88. You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for.

Wiz Khalifa

#89. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

Tommy Tune

#90. The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

Paul Sweezy

#91. You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

Eckhart Tolle

#92. Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#93. What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

Michael Meade

#94. Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts
some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#95. Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#96. I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#97. In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.

Ray Dalio

#98. My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.

Bo Burnham

#99. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#100. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,

Charles Wheelan