Usefulness Quotes

180 Usefulness quotes by 152 unique authors

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what… — Bill W.
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. — J C Ryle
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others. — Oswald Chambers
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its… — Horace Mann
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the… — Dieter Rams
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. — Oswald Chambers
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me… — Koichi Tanaka
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed… — Joseph Lancaster
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness. — Charles Stanley
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the… — Ellen Terry
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The… — Edith Sitwell
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair!… — Jeff Iorg
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front… — Jonathan Swift
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to… — Kurt Vonnegut
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. — Unknown Author
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that… — Guy Finley
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. — Lord Mountbatten
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability. — Johannes Rau
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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