#worthwhile

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children. ↗

— Paula Yates

#children #day #hour #i #live

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

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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#because #endeavor #feel #hear #less

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#alone #live #must #nothing #obsessively

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#because #become #could #crazy #fear

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#game #hand #i #i think #play

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

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It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#soul #worthwhile