Quotes with self-worth

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Roland Barthes Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Joe Paterno Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • M'Ckuen Roger Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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