Quotes About Value

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect.

'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person.

We need to say to ourselves 'I'm talented, loved, worthy, and valued.'

I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.

I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a black figure, the way the critical establishment operated, you can only imagine that figure having a sociological value. They never say the ways in which their aesthetics were equally worthy of consideration.

Being lean doesn't make you any more worthy, any more beautiful or any more valuable. It doesn't make you a more fit person, it doesn't mean you've worked harder in the gym, people who are leaner than you aren't better than you.

We can all mouth the words that every human is fundamentally worthy, but we don't act like it. We don't even believe it about ourselves.

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn't feel like it was worthy of a book.

Just like any other job, you want a raise you've got to put in the work and you've got to show that you're deserving and what you bring to the table and all kinds of other stuff to show that you're worthy of so and so pay scale.