Usefulness Quotes - Page 3

• The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Men, Increase

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

  Immanuel Kant

  Anarchy, Cannabis, Faculty

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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Real, Character, Giving

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

  Ovid

  Crowds, Vulgar, Values

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• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Long, Youth, Should

  Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

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• 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 of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Discipline, Life Is

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• A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Independent, Persons

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• Usefulness depends on tractability.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Depends

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

  Laozi

  Emptiness, Pot

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• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  Lane Kirkland

  Groups, Size, Murphys Law

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• Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Careers, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Ends

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.142, Routledge

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• The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lying, Heart, Sweetness Of Life

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, Years, People

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.

  Maura O'Halloran

  Mind, Awakening, Way

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Forever, Use

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from education, and were, at first, invented, and afterwards encouraged ... in order to render men tractable, and subdue their natural ferocity and selfishness, which incapacitated them for society.

  David Hume

  Men, Order, Selfishness

  David Hume (2006). “An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

  Oswald Chambers

  Perfect, Purpose, Use

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

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• God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

  Billy Graham

  Discipline, Doe, Blessedness

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2016

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• OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Book, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?

  Deane Juhan

  Children, Cat, Medicine

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• Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Movement, Failing

  Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter, Mrs. R. C. Bell (1970). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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