Worthwhile Quotes - Page 11

• The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
  But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

  Earl Nightingale

  Dream, Country, Children

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

  Danielle Fishel

  Years, People, Passionate

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• In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Art, Mean, Practice

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Views, Point Of View

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• That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

  Eric Hoffer

  Unique, Growth, Exhilaration

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Moon, Financial

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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• Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Causes, Donation, Profit

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• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

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• Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

  David O. Russell

  Crafts, Hard

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• Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

  Barack Obama

  Persevere, Easy

  "How Obama Won Me Over With a Single Speech" by Holly Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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• I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Done, Distribution Of Wealth

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• There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

  Debra Granik

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

  Carli Lloyd

  Kind, Life Is, Hard

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Play, America

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

  Marita Golden

  Writing, Humanity, Novelists

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• Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.

  Fergus McCann

  Easy, Celtic, Supporter

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• One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.

  Danny Silk

  Pain, People, Vision

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• The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

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• I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Levels, Want, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

  Dalai Lama

  Effort, Purpose, Achieve

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.

  George Harrison

  Work Out, Style, Trying

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