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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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• It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

  Richard Bandler

  Attitude, Curiosity, Able

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• He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wise, Money, Attitude

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• There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

  Matthew Henson

  Men, Climbing, Self

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• Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

  Dr. Seuss

  Romantic Love, Journey, People

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• Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Mean, Worthwhile Things

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].

  Koichi Tanaka

  Dream, Long, Giving

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• Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Motivation, Journey

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• In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivation, Adversity, Opportunity

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

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Success, Winning, American Football

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• We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever

  Bert McCracken

  Giving Up, Memories, Forever

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• It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

  Gary Lutz

  Mother, Mean, Mirrors

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

  Esther Forbes

  Believe, Writing, Exciting

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• There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

  John Phillips

  Hard Work, Generations, Ancestry

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• On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

  James P. Hogan

  Earth, Forgotten, Left

  "Outward Bound". Book by James P. Hogan, 1999.

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• No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.

  Walter Knott

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Dark, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.320, Discovery House

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• Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Thinking, Reason Why

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

  Joan Erikson

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

  William Watson Purkey

  School, Achievement, Attendance

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• Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

  Portia de Rossi

  Animal, Lovely, Sensitivity

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• Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Trying, Investing

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