Quotes about Useful
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
- Aristotle
God grant that I may never live to be useless!
- John Wesley
Amusement, on the other hand, is sought for the sake of pleasure and is often carried to excess; it absorbs the energies that are required for useful work and thus proves a hindrance to life's true success.
- Ellen White
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
- George Washington
Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
- Benjamin Disraeli
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
- Joseph Addison
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
- Richard Allen
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
- Alice Walker
Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.
- Frank Herbert
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
- Samuel Johnson
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.
- Paul Washer