Quotes About Being Worthwhile

#1. It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.

Jeffrey Fry

#2. Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

Frederick Lenz

#3. ... his solid body, the weight of him, his movement, all so real, all so there. It doesn't matter who he is. There are so many of them. Him. Me. Our movement together. Proof, I think again and again, of being worthwhile. Proof of being loved.

Kerry Cohen

#4. 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 W. Dyer

#5. I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.

Isaiah Washington

#6. I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Charles Grodin

#7. It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

Dalai Lama

#8. It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

#9. Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

Ellen Ochoa

#10. All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they're virgins. Being a virgin doesn't make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin.

Penny Reid

#11. The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Richard Ford

#12. Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.

Fergus McCann

#13. It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.

Thomm Quackenbush

#14. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

Albert Einstein

#15. Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Stefan Collini

#16. To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

Herbert Newton Casson

#17. One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people ... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.

Chris Hayes

#18. If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

#19. Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.

Vera Brittain

#20. Human nature has been sold short ... [humans have] a higher nature which ... includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

Abraham Maslow

#21. It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

James Lileks

#22. But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. This is about me being ready to succeed.
When I win in my mind, I truly win.
Anything worthwhile deserves some time.
I will do it this time! No excuses!

Lorii Myers

#24. Well, in my experience, it's usually the things we're most afraid of that end up being the most worthwhile.

Julie Johnson

#25. Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

Eugene Hutz

#26. I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#27. I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see -
- architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.

Laurie Perez

#28. Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#30. Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#31. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

Saint Frances De Sales

#32. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

B.C. Forbes

#33. - But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it - nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living - or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.

Jesse Ball

#34. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Russell Means

#35. Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

Laura Mennell