#worthwhile

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. ↗

— Amos Alonzo Stagg

#finer #nobler #something #unless #winning

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #because #believing #dignity #give

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#itself #worthwhile

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bath #creek #made #motel #really

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. ↗

— George Lucas

#before #brink #come #doing #give

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#anyone #behind #few #generations #hard-working

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#forces #known #like #many #naturally

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#important #line #movie #pace #phone

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bases #believe #countries #defend #home