A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.
To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Somehow, there is this feeling that women require remedial financial education, and so everything must be dumbed down. The reality is that we all need a lot more education, but guys just go ahead and invest anyway.
You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
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