Quotes About Worthwhile

the word dying was not synonymous with useless.

It's not about having the answers in life. It's about the search for the answers, the choosing to believe in something bigger than yourself that makes the journey of faith so challenging, yet so worthwhile… That is the crazy, glorious, sometimes maddening but always satisfying in the end, journey that we call faith.

Only that she is the light of our days and without her life would be very dull in this house. She's a trial, there's no doubt about that, but all things worthwhile are trials. Life's a trial, it's a battle, it's a strife from the day you're born. And that's shared out between rich and poor alike, only the Lord seems to be more generous towards the poor with it, if you know what I mean.

We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make.

What's the use of worrying It never was worthwhile.

Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.

Do you view your relationship as something to be endured for the sake of the kids, or because you don't want to be alone, or because you don't think you could do better?  Or do you view your relationship, even with its imperfections, as a worthwhile work in progress?  How would your view influence how you interact with your partner, what you do, what you say?  What results would those interactions produce?

Why did anyone make a deal with the devil? Desperation, pursuit of power and wealth … Or perhaps a mistaken confidence in one's ability to avoid pitfalls, to take something worthwhile from that deal and not be, as some would have it, "royally screwed.

A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top?

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

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.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

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

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.