Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.