Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble, many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To love, to be loved, and to be useful: these are the most important elements in a happy, meaningful life, and they… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability. — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art… — Jim Benton Copy Share Image
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated.… — George Muller Copy Share Image
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of… — Eugenie Clark Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless… — A.V. Hill Copy Share Image
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
