Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
“We all die, sweetheart. You’ve just got to live your life with enough meaning while you’re still here to make it all… — Steph Campbell Copy Share Image
While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile. — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to be afraid. Being afraid can sometimes mean that you’re actually doing something worthwhile.” — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil? — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ... — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel. — Chris LeDoux Copy Share Image
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try… — Eric Ladin Copy Share Image
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
