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• To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

  Aeschylus

  Winning, Tears, Fortune

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

  Van Jones

  Powerful, Color, White

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• I just don`t want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

  Pattie Boyd

  Home, Wife, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

  Philip Yancey

  Kids, School, Careers

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.38, Zondervan

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• Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Risk, Spices, Now And Then

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• Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Children, Years

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• Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

  Clarence Birdseye

  Success, Impossible, Week

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• It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

  Elvis Stojko

  Figure Skating

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• I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

  Tyrone Power

  Knights, Play, Sick

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished. When you approach others in judgment they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgment they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Judging, Inspire, Able

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• It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

  Michael Chabon

  Years, Together, Males

  "A Woman of Valor". Alure, May 2004.

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• All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

  Chuck Jones

  Should, Endeavor, Shows

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• Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Order, Goal, Needs

  FaceBook post by Quentin L Cook from Nov 17, 2014

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• I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Thinking, Risk, Astronaut

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

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• The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  Erica Jong

  Laughter, Writing, Silence

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

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• Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

  Dale Carnegie

  Real, Eye, Heart

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “The Art of Public Speaking”, p.159, GENERAL PRESS

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• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Letter, January 21, 1799.

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• If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

  Shelley Winters

  Play, Silence, Receiving

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• Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Leaving, Inspire, Desire

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• Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

  John Gruber

  Athlete, Artist, Organization

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• We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

  Jaron Lanier

  Beautiful, Creativity, Reality

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