Usefulness Quotes
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
— Theophile Gautier
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
— J.C. Ryle
To love, to be loved, and to be useful: these are the most important elements in a happy, meaningful life, and they can be achieved anywhere.
— Syrie James
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly
— Sally Kempton
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.
— Hester Young
It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
— J. Cornell Michel
I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's ... quieter.
— Dean Koontz
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
— Ann Radcliffe
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
— Peter Drucker
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
— John George Nicolay
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
— Richard M. Nixon
The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.
— Tom Morrison
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
— Bruce Lee
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
— Sharon Creech
Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted. — Laozi
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted. — Laozi
The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.
— Jonathan Martin
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
— Dorothea Dix
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
— Josh Billings
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.
— Thiruman Archunan
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
— John Cheever
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.
— Paul Feyerabend
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.
— Lindy West
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
— Samuel Johnson
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
— Cynthia Ozick
I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.
— Robert E. Murray
The memorability of a fact is inversely proportional to its usefulness.
- Jason's Third Law — Jason Dias
- Jason's Third Law — Jason Dias
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.
— Tom Stoppard
When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.
— N.K. Jemisin
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.
— Charles Stanley
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.
— Oswald Chambers
The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.
— Dennis Weaver
The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map ...
— Alfred Korzybski
There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.
— Amanda Craig
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
— Oswald Chambers
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
— Joseph Joubert
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.
— Richard Dawkins
What's their purpose?" I asked as a I stood.
"Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness. — Kelley Armstrong
"Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness. — Kelley Armstrong
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
— Marlin Fitzwater
Knowledge is great, but what practical use is it if you can't put it into practice?
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
— Lord Mountbatten
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
— Munia Khan
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.
— Jim Benton
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
— David Harsanyi
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
— Cleveland Abbe
Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.
— Susan Dennard
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
— William Golding
In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
— Frank Herbert
While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves. — Toba Beta
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves. — Toba Beta
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
— Charles Spurgeon
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
— David F. Houston
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
— Baltasar Gracian
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
— Brigham Young
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
— Charles De Gaulle
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
— Oswald Chambers
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
— Charles Spurgeon
Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
— David Eagleman
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
— Suzanne Collins
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
— Walter Savage Landor
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
— Jose Saramago
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.
— Suzanne Collins
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
— Alex Campbell
Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.
— Mark Wallace
Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
— Ford Madox Ford
Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal