Worthwhile Quotes - Page 13

• I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

  Aldrich Ames

  Effort, Political, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Change really isn't as hard as we thought if we capture people's interest and give them enjoyable, worthwhile experiences.

  Michael Fullan

  People, Giving, Capture

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

  Gladys Taber

  Selfish, Destiny, Thinking

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• You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

  Bobby Knight

  Up To You, Hell, Driven

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Believe, Taken

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• The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Taken, Mind

  "The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create". Book by Robert Fritz, p. 181, 1984.

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• If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Song, Believe

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• Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Success, Winning, American Football

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• Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

  James Wright Foley

  Shining, Friendship Love, Half

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• There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Preparation, Planning

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

  Gordon Getty

  Civilization, Ideas, Dodge

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• There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Life, Hard Work, Learning

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Fate, Knights, Optimism

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• There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

  William H. Hastie

  Inspiration, Achievement, Affair

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• GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspiring, Compassion

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• Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspiring, Graduation, Fall

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• The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Time, Done, Today

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• Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

  William Raspberry

  Real, Self Worth, Excellence

  William Raspberry (1991). “Looking Backward at Us”

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• No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Country, Mean, People

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Deep Thought, Hard

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• The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

  Jules Eckert Goodman

  Failure, Worry, Achieve

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• Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Funny, Laughter, Stress

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• We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

  Andrew Young

  Inspirational, Thinking, Generations

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