Definition of Usefulness

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Definition of Usefulness
	Usefulness The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Related Definitions: Advantage, Being, Of, Or, Quality, State, The, Useful, Utility

Usefulness Quotations

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

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

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
Cleveland Abbe

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
Lord Mountbatten

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
Jose Saramago

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever

Usefulness Translations

usefulness in Latin is utilitas

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