Usefulness Quotes - Page 8

• The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

  Lane Kirkland

  Attendance, Proportion, Meetings

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• You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

  Sharon Creech

  Want, Knows

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• Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

  Ellen Terry

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  People, Merit, Reputation

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• In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
  All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
  Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
  Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

  George Herbert

  Desire, News, Courtesy

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.9

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• What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

  Washington Irving

  Hands, Tree, Brain

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• The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

  Amelia Bloomer

  Comfort, Want, Costumes

  Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”

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• If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

  Samuel Johnson

  Agriculture, Firsts, Dignity

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.220

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• Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Good Design, Products

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• How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

  Bill W.

  Dark, Reality, Dawn

  Bill W. (1976). “Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism”

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• The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

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• What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

  Suzanne Collins

  Pieces, Break, Millions

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.628, Scholastic UK

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• Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

  Guy Finley

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Expression, Perfection

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart (1996). “What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

  Charles Stanley

  Requirements, Maximum, Brokenness

  Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.863, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Achievement, Community

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• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Looks, Gone

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Steps, Faster

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 15, 2014

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• I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

  C. S. Lewis

  Land, Atmosphere, Promise

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• If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Doe, Useless

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• If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Kindness, Littles, Steps

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

  Theophile Gautier

  Writing, House, Literature

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• Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Humanity, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stress, Fighting, Men

  "The College Graduate and Public Life" (1894) See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 5; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• [Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Technology, Statistics

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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