Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Quotes about worthlessness (11 Quotes)
Maybe this can be an eye-opener for the United States, ... It must understand that some of its assumptions about this region -- the worthlessness of public opinion, the total bias toward Israel -- have affected its credibility and ability to maneuver in this region.
Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us this is rather a dangerous way to put it let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, 'It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.'
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
The unfortunate the fools are those men who, for some reason best known to themselves, probably on account of their exaggerated estimation of what is to be lost in the process would like to stop it. The privileged ones the wise are those few who, being fully aware of the increasing worthlessness of present-day mankind and of its much-applauded progress, know how little there is to be lost in the coming crash and look forward to it with joyous expectation as to the necessary condition of a new beginning a new Golden Age, sunlit crest of the next long drawn downward wave upon the surface of the endless Ocean of Life.
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
Evil working in subtler fashion marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.