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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

Simon Sinek

Stories, Belief, Storytelling

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Once you have a handle on loving yourself, you can practice sharing that love with others. You’ve probably been taught to reserve the language of love for when you’re feeling overwhelmingly tender and passionate, and only for those who have made huge commitments to you. We recommend instead learning to recognize and acknowledge all the sweet feelings that make life worthwhile even when they don’t knock you over—and, moreover, learning to communicate those feelings to the people who inspire them.

Dossie Easton

Sweet, Commitment, Loving Yourself

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Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Sports, Jobs, Winning

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Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

Napoleon Hill

Attitude, Achievement, Purpose

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A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end, all must be explored, and whether one begins in the east or the west cannot matter much. The big concern is the extent to which a man offers himself, mind and body, to his worthwhile work. Upon that will growth depend.

John Andreas Widtsoe

Men, Space, Growth

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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

B. C. Forbes

Leadership, Sports, Fun

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My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

Paul Budnitz

Stupid, Grateful, Doctors

"Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

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I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.

Christopher Lee

Years, People, Trying

"Listen Back To A 1990 Interview With Actor Christopher Lee". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

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We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Memories, Fate, Long

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What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

Sheryl Sandberg

Jobs, Thinking, Race

"FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.

Gregory A. Boyd

Writing, Kissing, Play

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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

James Dean

Goal, Mark, Not Afraid

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I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . . . As a playwright, what I object to right now is any form of fundamentalism, whether it's nationalistic, religious or ethnic. . . . I think it is ridiculous - and fundamentalist, by the way - to say that I am not changed by the culture around me.

David Henry Hwang

Religious, Fall, Acceptance

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To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

Herbert Newton Casson

Secret, Purpose, Accomplished

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To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

Bruce McLaren

Trying, Wells, Foolhardy

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The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

Harvey Dunn

Teaching, Worthwhile Things, Done

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A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

David O. McKay

Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.

James Elkins

Beautiful, Morning, Blood

James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.4, Routledge

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The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Pablo Casals

Worthwhile Things, Practice, Bored

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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Samuel Eliot Morison

Freedom, America, Independence

Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Dream, Reality, Civilization

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA

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Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Grenville Kleiser

Inspirational, Today Is The Day, Achieve

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

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Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.

Tim Ferriss

Consumed, Has Beens, Productive

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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

Agnes Repplier

Attention, Way, Steps

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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Bernard Malamud

People, Accomplishment, Littles

Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Assistant”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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