Top 200 Meaning Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

52. “Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.”

— Tony Robbins

53. “If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.”

— Paulo Coelho

54. “The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

— Confucius

55. “We are what we think.”

— Buddha

56. “The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.”

— Louise Hay

57. “The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”

— Oprah Winfrey

58. “I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

59. “Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

— T. S. Eliot

60. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

61. “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

— Barack Obama

62. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

63. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

— Oscar Wilde

64. “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

65. “Why am I here? What’s my purpose?”

— Julie Anne Peters

66. “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

67. “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

68. “Despair is suffering without meaning.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

69. “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”

— Paulo Coelho

70. “Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

71. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”

— Seth Godin

72. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

— William James

73. “Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...”

— Marcus Aurelius

74. “Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.”

— Tony Robbins

75. “The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

76. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

— Khalil Gibran

77. “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

— Haruki Murakami

78. “True success – financial, personal, and professional – lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

79. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

80. “Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”

— Frederick Buechner

81. “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

82. “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

— Gospel of Thomas

83. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

84. “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

— Paulo Coelho

85. “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

86. “You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”

— Seneca the Younger

87. “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

88. “For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

89. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

— James Allen

90. “We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.”

— Bob Goff

91. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

92. “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.”

— William Blake

93. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

94. “The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”

— Rick Warren

95. “The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

96. “Find purpose. The means will follow.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

97. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad

98. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

99. “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

— Shannon L. Alder

100. “Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”

— Rick Warren