Top 927 Worthwhile Quotes & Sayings

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

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

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny, and the films that aren't worthwhile won't. It's all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don't think that's true at all.

All things that are worthwhile are very difficult to obtain.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were no reflexive processes to be found; sometimes I failed to find them; and, what was the most painful of all, sometimes I got them wrong. One way or another, I often invested without a worthwhile hypothesis and my activities were not very different from a random walk.

The football was really good at Villa. It was all worthwhile.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.

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

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

For every negative, there's a positive. It's in everything. How you deal with life, outlook, how much energy you put into achieving something. That's why I detest entitlement. Anything that's worthwhile is going to call for some sacrifice. Nothing worthwhile will come to you without a price. People think in sports, you have different rules. You really don't. It's whatever motivates you.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.' 'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Anything worthwhile is tough.

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

Nothing worthwhile is ever fun.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

If we can lift others up, then what we do is all worthwhile.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

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

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

Your initiations are worthwhile.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

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

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself