Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness. — Napoleon Hill
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the… — Ralph Marston
You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people. — Elon Musk
One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts. — Paulo Coelho
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them… — Joe Queenan
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too… — David Gilmour
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it… — John Lawson
To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need… — Jan Cameron
Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become… — Shaun Tan
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. — Benjamin Franklin
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. — Hermann von Helmholtz
We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with… — Dalai Lama
Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block. — Ricky Gervais
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing… — John Calvin
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience.… — John Owen
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise… — Seth Godin
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of… — Alan Watts
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable… — Rob Brezsny
If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in… — Derek Sivers
All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful. — Jay Baer
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. — Denise Scott Brown

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