Quotes about Usefulness
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
- Grover Cleveland
God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.
- Billy Graham
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness." - Out of Solitude
- Henri Nouwen
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
- Charles Spurgeon
While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.
- Ellen White
I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.
- Mark Twain
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
Holiness and usefulness are linked together.
- Jerry Bridges
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
- Woodrow Wilson
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
- Frank Herbert