Usefulness Quotes

180 Usefulness quotes by 152 unique authors

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result… — Theodore Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. — Josh Billings
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure… — Marie Curie
There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we… — Benjamin Hoff
Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet… — Christopher Moore
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to… — Charles Dickens
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. — Jim Benton
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has… — Susanna Clarke
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. — Suzanne Collins
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we… — Oswald Chambers
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? — Suzanne Collins
I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only… — C.S. Lewis
Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take. — Paulo Coelho
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. — William O. Douglas
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and… — John Cheever
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high… — Grover Cleveland
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our… — George Muller
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are… — Lee Smolin

Who Wrote These Usefulness Quotes

152 authors contributed a total of 180 Usefulness Quotes, led by these top contributors: