#worth

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant. ↗

— Nic Sheff

#self-confidence #self-esteem #self-worth #confidence

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ↗

— Harry Callahan

#exciting #expressing #feelings #felt #i

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#build #call #day #develop #forth

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. ↗

— Jim McCrery

#care #congress #costs #every #goals

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#well #whatever #worth

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#achieving #always #anything #determination #drive

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#like #lose #steel #temper #their

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students. ↗

— Douglass North

#college #competition #deeply #early #early life