Top 100 Worthwhile Life Quotes
#1. I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
Ruth Simmons
#2. I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
William J. Clinton
#3. 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
#4. The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.
Sathya Sai Baba
#5. I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life - achieving a sense of peace within oneself.
Oliver Sacks
#6. Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert Newton Casson
#7. No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary ...
Alan Watts
#8. But we have at last entered an era in which an increasing number of them believe their job is not to confine people's choices, in the name of safety, but to expand them, in the name of living a worthwhile life.
Atul Gawande
#9. Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.
Peprah Boasiako
#10. You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.
Nashoda Rose
#11. It was a gift. You were a gift. A gift that made my life worthwhile. A gift that made life fun. A gift that filled me with music. A gift that filled me with love. A gift that inspired me to live on the bright side.
Kim Holden
#12. Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.
Dustin Cruz
#13. Love is wonderful and worthwhile and enriching but it should never be a standoff between the person and the life that you want.
Heidi Priebe
#14. To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning sun, the songs of the wind, and smiles of flowers. These are all there to make your journey worthwhile and make your life meaningful.
Debasish Mridha
#15. With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#16. Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
Joan Erikson
#17. Like anything else worthwhile in life, a happy relationship takes some skill.
Laura Doyle
#18. - 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
#19. Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?
Artemus Withers
#20. A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.
Graham McNeill
#21. The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.
Michael Sam
#22. He spared a moment to hope that Edmund Herondale would find comfort in the arms of his beautiful mundane love, that he would live a life that made all he had lost and all he had suffered seem worthwhile.
Cassandra Clare
#23. Go ahead, scoff, he said, petulant. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees values beyond what's possible. That's the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile.
John Gardner
#24. I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
Esther Forbes
#25. The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
Donald Knuth
#26. Life is not just to run and run, it is also not just to have fun. Life is complete when we get something worthwhile done.-RVM
R.v.m.
#27. I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.
Chris Matakas
#28. Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward De Bono
#29. Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.
Michael Finkel
#30. If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy
#31. 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
#32. Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#35. 1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.
2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in your power - it may set you free.
Danie Botha
#36. Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
Ana Monnar
#37. I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
Steve Martin
#38. Can't you ever stop joking?"
"No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is?
Elizabeth Peters
#39. 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
#40. Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
Fauja Singh
#41. My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.
Diana Nyad
#42. Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.
Lewis Black
#43. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.
Fritz Leiber
#44. Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.
Nicholas Sparks
#46. Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
Hunter S. Thompson
#47. Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".
Robert Fulghum
#48. 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
#49. Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.
Susan Hubbard
#50. Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile.
Anthony Hopkins
#51. Life made easier for others is a life so worthwhile living
Margo Vader
#52. Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.
Dennis Prager
#53. Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.
David Morrell
#54. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
Denzel Washington
#55. In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
John Wooden
#56. You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole
like the world, or the person you loved.
Stewart O'Nan
#57. Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
Sai Baba
#58. Cheer up, make every endeavor worthwhile and never get tempted to take away the privilege to smile because life deserves joy and laughter.
Cesar Gealogo
#59. (In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one with the other person is the only worthwhile goal of one's life.)
C. G. Jung
#60. life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness.
Arthur C. Clarke
#61. When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.
Marya Hornbacher
#62. GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
Robert Kennedy
#63. 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
#64. Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars. 10.
Matt Haig
#65. What a tragic waste o engagement (selfies). Enjoy the moment. Do something more worthwhile with your time, anything. Stare out the window and think about life.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#66. Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.
O.R. Melling
#67. If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.
Ayn Rand
#70. Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
Mother Teresa
#71. I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
Edward Zwick
#74. Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
#75. You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations ... Either way, consequences are uncertain ... the path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave ... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.
K. Hari Kumar
#77. Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.
Carli Lloyd
#78. Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
Emile Hirsch
#79. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#80. Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again.
Jasinda Wilder
#82. Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.
Cora Carmack
#83. Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.
Amy Tan
#84. I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Charles Lindbergh
#85. Nothing in life is easy. Not if it's worthwhile.
Anara Bella
#86. 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
#87. My promise to life, 'I will make an effort to do something worthwhile in my lifetime'.
Sunita Chabra
#88. Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
James McAvoy
#89. If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then.
Alan Marshall
#90. You're living through the only moments that make life worthwhile ... In love, even beasts become divine.
Yasmina Khadra
#91. The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley
#92. Living life as only half humans until one day we meet a woman who completes us, who gives meaning to our pathetic existence and makes it worthwhile, enriching it with her laugh, with her smell, and the taste of her body. Days
Mia Asher
#93. Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.
Ella Winter
#94. Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
A. J. McLean
#95. Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#96. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#97. It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson
#98. The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.
Abraham Maslow
#99. Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
John Logan
#100. In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
Isaac Asimov
