Useful Quotes

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes… — Julia Cameron
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. — Al Capp
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. — Thomas Carlyle
If you aren't rich you should always look useful. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men… — Oswald Chambers
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. — Chanakya
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. — James Allen
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. — Lee Child
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a… — Ted Allen
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful,… — William J. Clinton
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. — Stephen Ambrose
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that… — Henry Ward Beecher
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the… — George Washington
It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good… — Gertrude B. Elion
So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that… — John Quincy Adams
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. — Rumer Godden

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