Top 100 The 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. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Louise Brown
#7. ... 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
#8. 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
#9. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.
Graeme Simsion
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
Adam Grant
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The hardest things to do are sometimes the ones that prove most meaningful, but not necessarily the ones we remember most fondly.
Katy Evans
#33. 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
#34. The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within.
Beverly K. Bachel
#35. I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
Michael Eisner
#36. 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
#37. Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
Judi Dench
#38. 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
#39. Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness ... The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
Becky Stark
#40. Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.
Tarthang Tulku
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Manipulating emotions is the most important function of meaningful art.
Ryan Quinn
#48. The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
Richard Louv
#49. Throughout the past decade of ministry work, my most meaningful and rewarding project has been Grace for the Homeschool Mom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#50. The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.
Phil Mitchell
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.
Tom Odell
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.
Bryant McGill
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
Nia Vardalos
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.
Kathleen Battle
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.
Wynn Bullock
#77. 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
#78. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it.
Eric Greitens
#79. If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my
product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it
and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel
anything. Nothing at all
Chris Murray
#80. Our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.
Cheryl Strayed
#81. Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
Melinda Gates
#82. by understanding the forces that shape coincidences, you can come to influence those forces and create your own set of meaningful coincidences, take advantage of the opportunities they present, and experience life as a constantly unfolding miracle that inspires awe in every moment. Most
Deepak Chopra
#83. restlessness is far more important and powerful than simple ambition or raw intelligence. It is the foundation of resilience, and self-motivation. It is fueled by curiosity, the ache to build something meaningful, and a sense of purpose to make the most of one's entire life.
Brent Schlender
#84. The aspirations of most people
security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits
are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.
Irena Klepfisz
#85. The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.
Bill Gates
#86. Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Portia De Rossi
#87. 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
#88. Learning from their children is the best opportunity most people have to assure themselves of a meaningful old age. Sadly, most do not take this opportunity.
M. Scott Peck
#89. 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
#90. When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
Jeff Bezos
#91. The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.
Scott Cohen
#92. 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
#93. Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#94. 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
#95. I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
Jack Jones
#96. Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
Alan Cohen
#97. The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.
William Shatner
#98. 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
#99. Don't think your testimony is meaningless if you didn't have a dramatic conversion. Every conversion cost the same amount of Christ's blood shed on the cross. Yours is just as meaningful as the most dramatic conversion ever told.
Beth Moore
#100. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.
Vicki Abeles
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