Quotes of Meaningful - somelinesforyou

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

- John Ruskin

“ We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ”

- Stacia Tauscher

“ Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. ”

- James Thomson

“ It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ''the past,'' and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue. ”

- Unknown

“ Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. ”

- Larry Wall

“ The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader. ”

- Max de Pree

“ Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. ”

- Paul Johnson

“ Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end. ”

- Dr. Thomas Dooley

“ Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ A single meaningful and calming statement is better than one thousand pointless ones. ”

- Buddha

“ Apart from the ballot box, philanthropy presents the one opportunity the individual has to express his meaningful choice over the direction in which any society will progress. ”

- Unknown

“ Contributing to a meaningful cause does not slow down life's pace, but it does make it more tolerable. ”

- Unknown

“ Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence. They go stark, raving mad. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires — disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time, but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ”

- Bernie S. Siegel

“ Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. ”

- Zig Ziglar

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

- John Stossel

“ If you want your life to be meaningful, go out and do something about it. ”

- Mary Louise Wiley

“ Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ 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

“ After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. ”

- Mary Brave Bird

“ In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. ”

- Paul Allen

“ In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. ”

- Helena Christensen

“ Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system. You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will help you rise above day-to-day setbacks. ”

- Robert Conroy

“ Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime. ”

- Richard Kahn

“ It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. ”

- Bryant H. McGill

“ I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. ”

- River Phoenix

“ You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money. ”

- Emily Rossum

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”

- Robert Penn Warren
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