Quotes About Intrinsic

Quakers never haggled, but set what they felt was a fair price for materials and labour. Each product had what was thought of as its own intrinsic merit, be it a carrot or a horseshoe or a quilt, and that did not change simply because many people needed a horseshoe.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The passing of time is intrinsic to the world; it is born of the world itself, out of the relations between quantum events that are the world, and that themselves generate their own time.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

By making us 'a little lower' than himself, God affixed the highest possible value on his daughters and his sons.

But recognition is often unsatisfying and fame is like sea-water for the thirsty. Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and good drink.

Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Prizes and medals. Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Pride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

Good wine sells itself.

It's in them anyway.

What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

God never had to reach into the ground again, because the power to transform was intrinsically placed into man. All types of potential were locked into our spirits before birth. For the Christian, transformation at its optimum is the outworking of the internal. God placed certain things in us that must come out. We house the prophetic power of God. Every word of our personal prophetic destiny is inside us. He has ordained us to be.

Even a crow finds its own child precious.

What's intrinsic? There was no intrinsic need for digients to have charming personalities or cute avatars, but there was still a good reason for it: they made people more likely to spend time with them, and that was good for the digients.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.