Worthless Quotes - Page 11

• Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Business

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2016

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• Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Mother, Dream

  "Lectures and Essays (a Selection)".

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• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Anxiety, Excess

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

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• Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Fairness, Holy

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.29

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• Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Mistake, Believe, People

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• Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

  Evan Davis

  Light, Balance, Today

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• A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Doe

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

  Carter G. Woodson

  College, People, Majority

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Luck, Hammers, Anvils

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• Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Children, Spring, Rain

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Class, Organization, Social

  "Direct Action". Voltairine de Cleyre's Address in Chicago, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. January 21, 1912.

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• And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

  Greg Mortenson

  Moving, Mountain, Our Society

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.76, Penguin

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• ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Generations

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

  Sigmund Freud

  Heart, Men, Depth

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

  Alexander Smith

  Strong, Character, Race

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Effort, Wicked

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honor, Doe, Stakes

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• Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

  Maureen Dowd

  Reading, Bells, Pixels

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• The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Blood, Ideas, Forever

  "Nonproliferation Norms". Book by Maria Rost Rublee, 2009.

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• One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

  E. W. Howe

  Respect, Men, Literature

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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Movement, Evolution

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• Awareness without action is worthless.

  Phil McGraw

  Action, Awareness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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