Useful Life Quotes

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Life, Leadership, Power

Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Inspirational, Life

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What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Dalai Lama

Life, Happiness, Spirituality

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

T. S. Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Life, Happiness, Happy

"Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Julia Cameron

Motivational, Money, Work

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.148, Souvenir Press

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Funny, Life, Friendship

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Mother Teresa

Life, Mother, Games

"Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

Julia Cameron

Money, Want, Really Mean

FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 13, 2013

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Influence And Power, Pakistan, Earth

Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Time

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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

Isaac Asimov

Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

Helen Keller

Thinking, Succeed, Neighbor

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.108, American Foundation for the Blind

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