Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

Haruki Murakami

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Isaac Marion

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Chuck Jones

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Tina Fey

Your initiations are worthwhile.