Usefulness Quotes · Page 11

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the…

— Richard M. Nixon

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.”

— Juli Zeh

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would…

— George Crabbe

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the…

— Benjamin Hoff

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to…

— Harrison Ford

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

— Patricia A. McKillip

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new…

— Matthew Simpson

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

— Suzanne Collins

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

— John Vane

“I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to…

— George Orwell

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

— Peter Drucker

[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather…

— Ingrid Newkirk

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability,…

— James McHenry

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also…

— Eric Temple Bell

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

— Cleveland Abbe

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said…

— Susanna Clarke

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

— Alex Campbell