Quotes with worthwhile

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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Pierre Corneille Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Lou Holtz Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Calvin Trillin The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Denis Waitley The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carla Bley There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
    Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Bob Anderson There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
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  • Alfred Jarry To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Hull What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • James Newman You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.
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  • Col. Harland Sanders 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?
    Col. Harland Sanders
    American businessman, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) (1890 - 1980)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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