Worthless Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• ...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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• 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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• Worthless as wither'd weeds.

  Emily Bronte

  Weed

  Emily Bronte, “Last Lines”

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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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• 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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• It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Wicked, Charity

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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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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• 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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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

  T. Davis Bunn

  Reeds, Uncaring, Precious Gifts

  T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House

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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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• Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Matter, Talent

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• Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Virtue, Concealed

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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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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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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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