Top 1200 Worthwhile Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

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

It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.

If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

When I have nothing worthwhile to wear, I pick up my dad's clothes at the last minute.

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

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

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

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

I think so much of a director's job is just to convince you that what you're doing is worthwhile. "Yes, this does mean something, we're not just messing around." Even though at the end of the day it's a film. But at the time it's something else. I don't feel like I'm making a film, I'm confronting things in myself. I don't know what it is. So if someone is enthusiastic enough to convince you that it's important it's kind of magical.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

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

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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

To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

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

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

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

Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

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

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Basically, I should feel at the end of the day that I am doing something worthwhile.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

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

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes - about things that matter. We don't have to be particularly smart or talented. We don't need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important; something bigger than ourselves. And it's that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

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

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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.