Meaningful Quotes

• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Jobs

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• The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Thinking, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.59, Penguin

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• I had to get really clear about what was meaningful & what wasn't, who I was & who I wasn't & who I wasn't going to be anymore.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Get Real, Clear

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• Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

  Sai Baba

  Jobs, Educational, Half

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• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love, Life, Change

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.225, Penguin

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  The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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• The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

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• The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Past, Forgotten, Accepted

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• Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Kindness, Positive Thinking

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• People have to be engaged. Enough of nihilism! Enough of emptiness and defeatism! Fighting for a better world is not only the decent thing to do, it is also fun; it is meaningful and fulfilling.

  Andre Vltchek

  Fun, Fighting, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

  Eric Butterworth

  Inspirational, Power, Achievement

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  Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• 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

  Beautiful, Missing, Unawareness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.74, Bantam

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• No one is any more or any less important than you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Positive, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2011

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

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Competition, Information

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System". Book by Bill Gates, www.entrepreneur.com. 1999.

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• Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

  Steven Johnson

  Mind, Important, Gunpowder

  Steven Johnson (2008). “The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America”, p.132, Penguin

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• How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Thinking, World, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Fun, Life Is Good, Expression

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• I experienced direct telepathy with other people, and during one such incident, I I received a channelling of cosmic information from some being in another realm. It came directly through a friend who was tripping on acid, and as he began speaking stream-of-consciousness to me and my girlfriend - and both of us were very stoned on grass - his words conveyed cosmic instructions and information we all three knew to be profoundly important and meaningful.

  Susan Schneider

  Girlfriend, People, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment.

  Adrian Grenier

  Meaningful Moments, Quality, Moments

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• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

  David Frost

  Love, Success, Encouraging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Wisdom, Men, Ownership

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• Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Passion, Essentials, Life Is

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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