Worthwhile Quotes - Page 8

• Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Hope, Creativity, Ideas

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Winning, Awards

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Humble, Water, Suffering

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Brave, Grace

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• The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.

  Gloria Gaither

  Beautiful, Children, Memories

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• If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Courage, Warrior

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• The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Science, Thinking

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• Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

  Derek Walcott

  Trying, Serious, Ritual

  Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• ...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Marriage, Country, Children

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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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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• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Inspiration, Persistence

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.

  William Carey

  Might, Kingdoms, Causes

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

  Cesar Milstein

  Success, Nature, Cutting

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• Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

  Stan Smith

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• It's easy to grin
  when your ship comes in
  and you've got the stock market beat.
  But the man worthwhile
  is the man who can smile
  when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

  Ted Knight

  Money, Men, Ships

  "Fictional character: Judge Elihu Smails". "Caddyshack", 1980.

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• It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

  Norbert Capek

  Encouragement, Inspirational Life, Fighting

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• You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

  Chester Carlson

  Motivational, Success, Moving

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• Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

  Evariste Galois

  Hurt, Book, Knowledge

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• Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, People, Political

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• Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Hate, Loving Yourself

  "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".

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• Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Thinking, Ira, Target

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