Worthwhile Quotes · Page 17

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

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

— Richard Dawkins

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

— P. J. O'Rourke

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

— Max Lucado

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program,…

— Mary Roach

“In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it…

— Robert Fanney

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to…

— Alex Winter

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though…

— Sarah McLachlan

Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You…

— Amy Carmichael

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't…

— David Baldacci

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we…

— Peter Singer

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested…

— Frederick Sanger

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only…

— Carlos Castaneda

I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think…

— Gail Carson Levine

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my…

— Edmund Hillary

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

— Perrie Edwards

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what…

— George Carlin

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those…

— Bear Grylls

“Stop seeking validation for being worthwhile. It doesn't matter what others think, what matters is what you believe.”

— Germany Kent

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your…

— Bob Marley

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to…

— Waite Phillips

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play…

— Matt Dillon

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile…

— Arthur Ashe

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch…

— Eric Hoffer

In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

— Frederick Lenz

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your…

— Philo Farnsworth

We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile…

— Bert McCracken

I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

— Robert Greene

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

— Anthony Hopkins

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to…

— Debbie Reynolds

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is…

— Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile,

— Paco de Lucia

When the ball starts going in, the goals will start to arrive one after the other and all the sacrifices will have…

— Joao Felix

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

— David Attenborough

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives…

— Karen Rose

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

— Susanna Kearsley

Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done…

— Laurence Overmire

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not…

— Joyce Carol Oates