Worthless Quotes - Page 8

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fighting, Battle, Planning

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• Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

  Robert G. Allen

  Priceless, Nurture, Wells

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• A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

  Drea de Matteo

  Examination

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• But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Practice, Names

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• 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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• If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

  John Goodman

  Don't Trust, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Yesterday, Subway

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2009

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• What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, People, Working Together

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sometimes, Lifestyle, Interest

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Suffering, Gold, Lasts

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• The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Land, Support

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

  Luther Burbank

  Knowledge, Science, Boys

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• For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

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• Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Virtue, Concealed

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• The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.

  John C. Maxwell

  Feeling Down, Feelings, Want

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• The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

  Randy Alcorn

  World, Return, Christ

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.30, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

  Ken Wahl

  Caring, Animal, People

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• If we can change from that deeper place - for instance, if I am constantly going around telling myself and everybody that I'm a failure and I'm worthless, that's a reflection of the thoughts I'm having. The moment that I'm able to shift at the level of my mind and start seeing that I have something to offer, life is important, and I want to contribute, then that tiny subtle shift from the inside can have a profound affect on my external life.

  MC Yogi

  Reflection, Profound, Mind

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• We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.

  Dov Davidoff

  Holiday, Paper, Celebrate

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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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