Worthwhile Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

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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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• When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humility, Humble, Pride

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Exit, Bones, Easy

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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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• She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Heart, Worthwhile Things, Broken

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Giving Up, Book, Moving

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• You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

  Colonel Sanders

  Motivational, Work, Passion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Being Free, Way

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• I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  Denzel Washington's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almanac.upenn.edu. May 16, 2011.

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, What If

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• I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Life, Motivational, Sorry

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• You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?... I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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