My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
Lord Mountbatten

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
David F. Houston

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Marlin Fitzwater

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
Alex Campbell

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
David F. Houston

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
Alfred Korzybski

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Ellen Terry

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton