#worth

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

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does. ↗

— Pete Conrad

#does #dollars #i #i think #launch

I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself. ↗

— David J. Cook

#am #else #even #feel #hope