Worthwhile Quotes - Page 26

• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  "The Country of the Pointed Firs". Book by Sarah Orne Jewett, Ch. 16, 1896.

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• The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Men, Secret

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. V, No. 3605, (p. 128), 1861.

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• It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Life, Sweet, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

  Marcus Garvey

  African American, Inspire, Words Of Wisdom

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

  Chuck Jones

  Should, Endeavor, Shows

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• Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Order, Goal, Needs

  FaceBook post by Quentin L Cook from Nov 17, 2014

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• I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Thinking, Risk, Astronaut

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

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• The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  Erica Jong

  Laughter, Writing, Silence

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

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• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Letter, January 21, 1799.

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• If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

  Shelley Winters

  Play, Silence, Receiving

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• The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

  Berenice Abbott

  Art, Photographer, Trouble

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• Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

  Ella Winter

  Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

  Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

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• The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Responsibility, Done

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• We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, Discussion, Initiation

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Drinking, Fighting, Making Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Home, Quality, Dresses

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?

  B. C. Forbes

  Gratitude, Mean, Opportunity

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• Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

  Rene Descartes

  Situations In Life, Worthwhile Things, Judging

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• I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Taken, Thinking, Listening

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