Meaningful Quotes - Page 5

• This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Awards, Celluloid, Dealer

  On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death, April 29, 1980.

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

  John Ruskin

  Education, Able, Firsts

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.

  Howard Schultz

  Achievement, Victory, Joints

  Howard Schultz (2012). “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Years, Wife

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Long, Progress

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Positive, Hope, Grateful

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

  Marlee Matlin

  Transition, Trends, Seems

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• It's a little too late. I'm a little too gone. A little too tired of just hanging on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Tired, Gone, Littles

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• In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

  Don DeLillo

  Literature, May, Influential

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to experience the meaning? People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are wandering all over the world.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Drinking, People

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

  Jean-Luc Nancy

  Inspirational, Life, Would Be

  Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

  Marshall Ganz

  Change, Political, Society

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• Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given.

  Ron Atchison

  Beautiful, Choices, Mind

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• Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Freak, Meaningful Work

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2011

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• Nothing in this world is more powerful, or more dangerous, than the truth. That's why some people go to such lengths to avoid hearing it. It may also be why others strive so hard to keep their conversations empty. They wouldn't want to find themselves accidentally saying something meaningful that might bring about a change.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Powerful, People, Might

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• It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Wisdom, Giving, Sculpture

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Wisdom, Yoga, Book

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Reality, Magic

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Song, Giving

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• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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