Worthwhile Quotes

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Service Purpose Life-Purpose

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart

Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Paul Tornier

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie