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Quotes About Usefulness

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
~ Dorothea Dix
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
~ Charles William Eliot
The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
~ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
~ Johannes Rau
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
~ Anohni
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
~ George Matthew Adams
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
~ Gaby Hoffmann
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Blockchain assets derive value from their usefulness. Bitcoin has value because people value the payment network. BTC is required to use the network, so people demand it. If Bitcoin continues to be useful, it will continue to have value.
~ Nick Tomaino
quality is most of all a function of its usefulness. The Corporate Quality Program Real quality has little to do with defects
~ Tom DeMarco
An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
~ J. G. Ballard
This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever.
~ Unknown
I tried to fit language into the shape of usefulness. The world moves through words as if the bodies the words reflect do not exist.
~ Claudia Rankine
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
~ Lewis Thomas
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
absolute usefulness to those who wielded it as an instrument. It told us things already known, suggested things that would not work, and made careers for people who already had jobs. 'We
~ Unknown
Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless.
~ Unknown
Gavrila's teaching, not to lose a single word. He maintained that to be happy and useful one should join the march of the working people, keeping in step with the others in the place assigned in the column.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
~ Koichi Tanaka
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
~ Oswald Chambers
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
~ Martin Gardner
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
~ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
~ Oscar Wilde