Quotes with self-worth

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1083.

  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • James Boswell There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Sir Walter Scott There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Seneca There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Aldous Huxley There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Caroline Knapp These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Mahatma Gandhi They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Harold Wallace Ross Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
    Harold Wallace Ross
    American journalist and founder of The New Yorker (1892 - 1951)
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  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • William James This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alice James Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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