Quotes of Futile - somelinesforyou

“ Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. ”

- Friedrich von Schiller

“ Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?". ”

- Brian Tracy

“ O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. ”

- William Cowper

“ The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. ”

- George Santayana

“ He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. ”

- Robert Browning

“ It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. - Robert F. Goheen. ”

- Robert F. Goheen

“ To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness — though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. ”

- Julian Barnes

“ Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere. ”

- Unknown

“ Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. ”

- Unknown

“ To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. ”

- George Earle Buckle

“ Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. ”

- Motto

“ Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived. ”

- Luc De Clapiers

“ The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. ”

- Reggie Jackson

“ To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ I think without writing I would feel completely useless. ”

- Sam Shepard

“ He who has never failed somewhere… that man can not be great. ”

- Herman Melville

“ It is useless work that darkens the heart. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main. ”

- Emily Bronte
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