Useful Quotes
1790 quotes by 1285 authors
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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
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
— Al Capp
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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
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If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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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
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
— Chanakya
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
— James Allen
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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
— Lee Child
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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
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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
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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
— Antisthenes
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
— Lucretius
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
— Rumer Godden
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