Definition of Futile

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Definition of Futile
	Futile Talkative; loquacious; tattling. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. Related Definitions: Answering, End, Importance, Loquacious, No, Of, Talkative, Tattling, Useful, Useless, Vain, Worthless

Futile Quotations

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise Pascal

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc

Futile Translations

futile in Afrikaans is vrugteloos
futile in Dutch is vergeefs, ijdel, nutteloos
futile in Finnish is turha
futile in French is vain
futile in German is zwecklos, sinnlos, nutzlos
futile in Norwegian is intetsigende, forgjeves

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