Quotes with self-worth

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1083.

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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  • Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Paula Nelson Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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  • William Dean Howells An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Friedrich Engels An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Socrates An unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Harriet Lerner Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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  • Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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