Worth Quotes

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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. [From: An Ethical Philosophy of Life]

- Felix Adler

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If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world...

- Greta Crosby

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

- C. A. Bartol

Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on.

- James Baldwin

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

- Norman Cousins

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

- Kathleen Norris

I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

- Rudyard Kipling

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

- Parker J. Palmer

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

- William Lyon Phelps

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

- Blaise Pascal

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

- Margaret Laurence

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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.

- William Ellery Channing

I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.

- William Ellery Channing

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

- Virginia Woolf

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

- Virginia Satir

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

- Audrey Hepburn

The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.

- John Dewey

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Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

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- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.