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Quotes About Usefulness

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.
~ Billy Graham
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
~ Abigail Adams
BELIEVERS ARE AS SALT AND LIGHT 13 You are the salt (preservative) of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men ("Salt" is a Type of the Word of God; the professing Believer who no longer holds to the Word is of no use to God or man).
~ Jimmy Swaggart
Remember, too, that one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
~ Anna C. Brackett
Fenella's lips tightened at his quick dismissal of her usefulness and endurance. For five years, people had coddled her—if truth were told, people had always coddled her—and she'd had enough. It had been unpleasant, but refreshingly bracing when Mr. Townsend had shouted at her. Nobody ever shouted at her. Since her widowhood, they were inclined to murmur in her presence as if they were in church.
~ Anna Campbell
For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.
~ Fergie
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved and respected; to have a happy youth; to be well and wisely married; and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send.
~ Louisa M Alcott
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little are and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.
~ F. F. Bosworth
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
~ Dimitris Mitropoulos
Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?
~ Joe Abercrombie
When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
~ Suzanne Vega
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
~ E. T. Bell
Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
~ Ford Madox Ford
In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
~ Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
~ Frank Herbert
The odd belief prevails in our culture that a thing or experience is not real if we cannot make it mathematical, and somehow it must be real if we can reduce it to numbers. But this means making an abstraction out of it - mathematics is the abstract par excellence, which is indeed its glory and the reason for its great usefulness.
~ Rollo May
Je suppose qu'il serait difficile d'envisager de la garder. - Il n'en est pas question ! A quoi pourrait-elle bien nous servir ? - Nous pourrions peut-être, nous, lui servir à quelque chose, lança Matthew, abruptement.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Relish what is good and expedient.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
To say that the artist is not serving humanity is monstrous. He has been the eyes, the ears, the voice of humanity. He was always the transcendentalist who x-rayed our true states of being. His role in European culture is clear enough. Here he is given an inferior status, because he is not obviously and directly useful. His usefulness cannot be measured. The artist cannot serve directly.
~ Anais Nin
what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value.
~ Andrew Bowie
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
~ John Calvin
They say everything in the world is good for something.
~ John Dryden