Useful Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Mistakes, Nothing

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King

Trust, Liar, Innocent

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Education, Rather, Devil

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Mother, Child, Gift

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Men

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Trying, Become

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Through

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Person, Lazy

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya

Stupid, Person, Books

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle

Greatest, Virtues, Persons

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion, Wise, True

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

Experience, Past, Purpose

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

Beautiful, Nothing, House

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Off, Point

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx

Results, Useless, Production

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Happiness, After, Service

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Others, Longer

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo

God, Philosophy, Necessary

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Crazy, Children

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Respect, Yourself, Friend

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Wish, Sense

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo

God, Striving, Toward

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Life, Choose, Habit

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Everything, Off

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Before

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Great, Happy

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Reflection, Failing, Achieve

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Wish, Others

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Success, Work

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