#worth

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#delay #everything #grant #impulse #servant

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#doing #done #good #good idea #i

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#dignity #free #free people #fundamental #human

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#attained #fidelity #purpose #through #true

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#faithfulness #god #makes #trustworthy #you

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#characters #knowledge #limited #lives #men

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. ↗

— Tre Cool

#cut #jam #lower #pearl #pearl jam