Worthwhile Quotes

621 quotes by 524 authors

Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life… — Ezra Taft Benson
There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance. — Boyd K. Packer
The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make… — Michael Gungor
Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that… — Harvey Keitel
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive.… — Peter Asher
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours… — Billy Sheehan
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we… — Edward Zwick
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made… — Alex Winter
A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of… — David O. McKay
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. — Pablo Casals
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ...… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . .… — David Henry Hwang
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,… — Gregory A. Boyd
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea,… — Amos Alonzo Stagg
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement. — Napoleon Hill
A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end,… — John Andreas Widtsoe
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the… — B. C. Forbes
My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I… — Paul Budnitz
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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