Meaningful Quotes

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

~ Oliver North

Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

~ John Bruna

Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Live like you want, not how others want you to live.

~ Anonymous

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

~ Robert Lewandowski

Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is.

~ Ryan Holiday

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

~ Paul Di Filippo

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

~ Rudolf Steiner

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

~ Corazon Aquino

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

~ John Stossel

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

~ Martin Yan

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

~ Daniel Libeskind

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

~ Peace Pilgrim

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

~ Dieter Rams

It does not matter how much we donate it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

~ Ronnie Chan

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

~ Scott Kim

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

~ John Cornyn

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

~ Tom Rath

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'

~ David A. Bednar

My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.

~ Erwin Mcmanus

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

~ John Ruskin

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

~ Howard Schultz

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

~ William Shatner

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

~ Joan Cusack

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

~ Michelle Obama

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

~ Robert Kennedy

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

~ Virgil Goode

The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.

~ Charles T. Canady

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

~ Elena Kagan