Worthwhile Quotes

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

Anything worthwhile is tough.

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

We all have things that will knock us down, but there's always something that will pick you back up. It's about those moments that make everything worthwhile.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

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.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.