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Welcome to these Meaningful quotes and sayings. What is a "meaningful" quote? While there is no definition of a "meaningful quote," philosophical quotes and sayings about serious subjects that inspire thought are often termed "meaningful quotes." Generally, the full depth of a "meaningful quote" is not immediately obvious, and one is required to contemplate the true meaning, or deeper meaning, of the quote or saying. I hope you enjoy and find value in these Meaningful Quotes about Life.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-
Joseph Campbell
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-
Mark Twain
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-
Socrates
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Cleverness is not wisdom.
-
Euripides
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-
Khalil Gibran
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Stephenie Meyer
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
- Philo
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
- H Jackson Browne
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses
- George Washington Carver
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -
but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Anonymous
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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