Worthwhile Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Helping, Problem, Solve

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Koichi Mano (February 3, 1966), as quoted in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman" edited by Michelle Feynman and Timothy Ferris (pp. 198, 201), April 5, 2005; also quoted in "Wise Man" by Freeman Dyson, www.nybooks.com. October 20, 2005.

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• All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Vision, Individual

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• Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.

  Jon Taffer

  Challenges, Sometimes, Mets

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2016

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• If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

  Ayn Rand

  Song, Believe, Individualism

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• Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Pay The Price, Pay

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Style, Sides

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Struggle, Safety, Perfect

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• Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

  Tim Finchem

  People, Done, Connecting

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• I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be able to do what I do everyday. It was harder when I started because I didn't see the response, but now I'm out there playing for people and seeing them happy, which makes it all worthwhile

  Kimbra

  Grateful, Thinking, People

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• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

  Mike Rowe

  Years, Ideas, Wish

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

  Ian Svenonius

  Government, West, Done

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• The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Gross, Products

  "Bobby Kennedy on GDP: 'measures everything except that which is worthwhile'" by Simon Rogers, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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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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• 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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• The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

  Calvin Trillin

  Ceilings, Taxation, Way

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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