72 Quotes About Usefulness

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

As far as the eye can see, there's water and hazy horizon. Into the ark, plans for the distant future, joy in the difference, admiration for the better man, choice not narrowed down to one of two,outworn scruples, time to think it over, and the belief that all this will still come in handy someday.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

I am a woman who may never do great things for God, as the world terms them. But there must be all kinds of usefulness, including this: usefulness in the small things.

Jeg kalder nyttige Bøger dem, som sette Boghandlere udi Activitet, som forfremme Handel, og komme deres Gryder til at kaage, ikke saadanne, der sigte alleene til forfængelig Lærdom, som Almuen, der er Landets Styrke, ikke forstaaer, og derfore gemeenligen oplægges med Boghandlernes største Skade, og ligge skimlede paa Bogladene.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.