Useless Quotes
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Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Mo Rocca
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For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
Jose Rizal
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle
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Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.
William Eggleston
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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.
Geronimo
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin
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The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
Steve Morse
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
Walter Karp
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Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Demonax
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You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
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If my face was covered, I would be useless.
Aaryn Gries
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
Haruki Murakami
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Westbrook Pegler
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
Mireille Enos