No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about.
—Kenneth Koch
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
—William Wrigley Jr.
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
—Thomas Carlyle
Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got… and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
—H. L. Mencken
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
—Kahlil Gibran
One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat.
—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.
—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
A person's a person, no matter how small.
—Dr. Seuss