Worthwhile Quotes - Page 15

• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Gratitude, Work, Opportunity

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

  Cesar Milstein

  Success, Nature, Cutting

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• Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

  Stan Smith

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• It's easy to grin
  when your ship comes in
  and you've got the stock market beat.
  But the man worthwhile
  is the man who can smile
  when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

  Ted Knight

  Money, Men, Ships

  "Fictional character: Judge Elihu Smails". "Caddyshack", 1980.

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• It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

  Norbert Capek

  Encouragement, Inspirational Life, Fighting

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• You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

  Chester Carlson

  Motivational, Success, Moving

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• Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

  Evariste Galois

  Hurt, Book, Knowledge

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• Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, People, Political

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• Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Hate, Loving Yourself

  "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".

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• Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Thinking, Ira, Target

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• There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

  Philo Farnsworth

  Funny, Humorous, Intellectual

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• Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

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• I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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• It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

  Robert Winston

  Real, Animal, Achievement

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, History, African American

  Carter G. Woodson, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

  Paula Yates

  Time, Children, Thinking

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• Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

  Loretta Young

  Penalties, Wanted, Values

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• Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Pride, Wind

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

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• And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Sky, Personality

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

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• Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Guitar, Careers

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House

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• If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

  John Irving

  Writing, Giving, Cooking

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Suffering, Purpose

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.188, A&C Black

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• Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.

  William Carey

  Might, Kingdoms, Causes

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