Quotes with futile

  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
  • Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

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  • Dale Carnegie Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Arianna Huffington It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
    The conquest of happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The ''how'' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ''ifs.''
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Anthony Minghella The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • George Earle Buckle To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Arianna Huffington Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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