Worthless Quotes - Page 12

• Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Worry, Problem, Forget You

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

  Trip Lee

  Broken, Perfect, Scripture

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

  Marcus Aurelius

  This Life

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

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• Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spring, Water, Use

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• Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

  Tim LaHaye

  Revenge, World, Weapons

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• I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.

  Marian Keyes

  Book, Writing, People

  "Marian Keyes: a life in books". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• The worst is feeling worthless.

  Donald Glover

  Feelings, Worst

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• The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

  Frank Yerby

  Simple, Men, Years

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• Nobody's really happy. And as soon as society realises that you can't trust anyone and that hardship is a natural part of existence, the sooner the therapists will realise that they are worthless! Sorry. They have worth deficit disorder!

  Christopher Titus

  Sorry, Hardship, Can't Trust Anyone

  "Titus / The Session". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

  Hosea Ballou

  Mother, Children, Degrees

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• I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, People

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• There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Education, Leisure

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• If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure.

  Lacey Mosley

  Lying, Treasure, Made

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• All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates

  Amit Abraham

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Praise

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• In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Judgment, Human Condition

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• How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

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• Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.

  Johannes Kepler

  Memories, Wind, Astrology

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• Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fighting, Battle, Planning

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

  Pablo Picasso

  Freedom, Plato, Mean

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• Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

  David Jeremiah

  Love, Christian, Deeds

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• Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Photographer, Know How

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Running, Math, Long

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• I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
  (i) this is worthless nonsense;
  (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
  (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
  (iv) I always said so.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Acceptance, Views, Interesting

  Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

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