Worthwhile Things Quotes

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Situations in life often permit no delay;
and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best,
we must follow the one which is probably the best.
This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.