Quotes About Use

You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Go on, then,' the count said slowly. 'Go, my dear friend, but do this for me: if you should encounter any obstacle, remember that I have some power in this world, that I am happy to use it for the benefit of those I love, and that I love you, Morrel.

So religion, which among the Americans never directly takes part in the government of society, must be considered as the first of their political institutions; for if it does not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use of it.

The States in which the citizens have enjoyed their rights longest are those in which they make the best use of them.

Fazer magia para si mesma é complicado. A magia é algo que você deve usar para ajudar os outros. Se usá-la em benefício próprio, o tiro pode sair pela culatra e lhe causar inúmeros problemas.

I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason.

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

That I have not yet met the right woman, and that there is no use my marrying unless I find someone I like as well as Emma,' I said. He laughed, though I did not know why. There was nothing very amusing in what I had said.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Here's the key: you don't have to have a great gift for God to use you in a great way.

Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all.