Worthwhile Quotes - Page 5

• All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Determination, Journey

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• Anything worthwhile is tough.

  Emily Giffin

  Tough

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.291, Macmillan

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

  B. C. Forbes

  Determination, Fighting, Exercise

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• An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Sports, Football

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Success, Men

  Forbes, p. 42, 1948.

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• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Gratitude, Work, Opportunity

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

  Nora Roberts

  Complication

  Nora Roberts (2012). “All the Possibilities: The MacGregors”, p.94, Penguin

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• Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

  Ted Chiang

  Children, Tired, Apology

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• When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Mind, Life Is

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• A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

  Ana Castillo

  Lovers, Good Lovers

  Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

  Helen Hollick

  Lying, Two, People

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• Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.225, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

  Randy Pausch

  Use, Might, Selling

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Earth, Made

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Fighting, Knowing, Wish

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.193, Allison & Busby

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• ...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Home, Doe, Alternatives

  Jonathan Lethem (2010). “Chronic City”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

  Paula McLain

  Beautiful, Moving, Talking

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

  Miranda July

  Giving Up, Writing, Loving Someone

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, McSweeney's

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• Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Meaningful, Courage, Determination

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• The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Long, Firsts

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• Your initiations are worthwhile.

  Tina Fey

  Initiation

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

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• I don’t like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything and makes everything he’s ever seen or done or gone through worthwhile, believe me, Rikki, the urge to protect her is overwhelming. If that bothers you, then I’m sorry, because it’s going to be happening over and over throughout our years together.

  Christine Feehan

  Sorry, Believe, Men

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.269, Penguin

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• But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Saint, Alive

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.106, Seven Stories Press

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