Worthwhile Quotes
621 quotes by 524 authors
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I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when…
— Liv Ullmann
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Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what…
— Edna Buchanan
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian…
— J I Packer
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I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded…
— Ben Fountain
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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the…
— Earl Warren
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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were…
— George Soros
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Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy…
— Janet Yellen
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Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
— Paul Dirac
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Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few…
— Trent Reznor
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Every day  take a few minutes and focus on SEEING yourself in joy. FEEL yourself in joy. IMAGINE only joy ahead in your life…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
— Donald Knuth
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Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
— Brian Kernighan
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You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
— Malcolm Forbes
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The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the…
— B. C. Forbes
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What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played…
— Bobby Hull
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I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third,…
— Albert Einstein
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Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing…
— Leonard Maltin
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God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
— Max Lucado
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