True Worth Quotes - Page 2

• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

  Benjamin Graham

  Doe, Investing, Pay

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• The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Texture, Alive

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• That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, Merit

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• Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Humble, People, Enough

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• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

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• If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

  John Piper

  Heart, Men, Light

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

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• Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

  Marie Forleo

  Who We Are, Humans, Human Beings

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• Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

  Sylvia Plath

  Acceptance, Winning, Past

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.205, Anchor

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• You don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.

  Georgia Cates

  Memories, Knows

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• The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

  Claude Bernard

  Truth, Experiments, Experimentation

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Expression, Opposites, Tablets

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• True worth is in being, not seeming

  Alice Cary

  Seeming

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.174

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• He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Brother, Understanding, Kindred

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• The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Women, Memorable, Character

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