Worthwhile Quotes

621 quotes by 524 authors

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just,… — Abraham Maslow
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for. — Simon Sinek
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. — Samuel Beckett
If youâ€™re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, youâ€™ve got… — James Dean
To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living. — Herbert Newton Casson
It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile. — Elvis Stojko
Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week. — Clarence Birdseye
Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the… — Amy Carmichael
Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it… — Dalai Lama
Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's… — Philip Yancey
I just don`t want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile. — Pattie Boyd
To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy — Bruce McLaren
Say something worthwhile and people will listen. — Germany Kent
Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals. — Tony Robbins
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel,… — Emile Hirsch
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. — Lupita Nyong'o
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways… — Colin Quinn
Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and… — Cennino Cennini
We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking… — Joe J. Christensen

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