Worthwhile Quotes

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

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

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

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

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.