Worth Quotes by Pearl Bailey, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jen Sincero, Jordan Peterson, Thomas Fuller, Sidney Hook and many others.
No one can figure out your worth but you.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.
‘Moonlight’ changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.
Dallas is a great city, and it’s worth fighting for.
One answer is that the town’s elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money’s worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.
I’m under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
There’s some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
What’s making this meal actually worth eating? I think of Bridgerton’ as a Happy Meal, but with secret vitamins put in there. It’s like a secretly healthy, organic burger.
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
I’ve met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it’s just not worth working with them.
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one’s home or the peace of one’s mind.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
If something is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
How much is an hour of your time worth? It’s worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It’s whatever your salary works out to per hour.
I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn’t trust me.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
People think because it’s photography it’s not worth as much, and because it’s a woman artist, you’re still not getting as much – there’s still definitely that happening. I’m still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that’s really unfair.
I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it’ll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.
Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you’ve got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it’s worth it.
I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren’t the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars’ worth of property.
Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
I want to feed my kid something that is real and not processed. It’s hard to do. People are working and busy. The question is: Is it worth it? Is it worth stopping at the farm stand or supermarket to buy fresh ingredients?
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I’ve been in the process of selling others.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
‘Short Term 12’ was such a marathon. It’s like trying to convey the same emotional depth as ‘The Gambler’ but with less time and a fingernail’s worth of the budget.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That’s the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That’s worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Look, dry-aged meat is amazing and certainly worth buying when you can afford it.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
Just because it’s bad doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
I am ready to act in Punjabi movies, but offers have to be worth it.
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Culture’s worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we’re all totalitarian beasts.
The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they’re loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they’re worth it; I’d say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.
There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
I’d say I get heckled quite a lot because I look quite like an easy target. If you’re an alpha-male and you think you’ve got something to prove to your girlfriend, I think I’m the perfect person to prove your worth.
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.
My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
Stay away from drugs. They’re not worth it. I’ve tried, but there’s none of them that’s worth it.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it’s always worth taking a careful second look.
It’s all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America’s right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.
What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it’s always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I’ve seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
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.
Blockchain is moving beyond cryptocurrency, and it’s worth paying attention – especially since successful prototypes show that blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology, will be transformative.
I believe it’s worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
Juve have allowed me to show my worth, it has provided me with a challenge that has motivated me.
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.
Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.
Not only had I not expected a random call from Joe Biden, but I could never have imagined he would make that call to ask me out. I’ve been asked if I was starstruck by the fact that a U.S. senator thought I was worth a call, but I honestly wasn’t. I was flattered that someone I’d heard of was interested.
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading!
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
If you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something – which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying – and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn’t succeed; then you would just evaporate.
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
This way of life is worth defending.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
It’s worth being suspicious of writers – or anyone! – who does that myth-making thing. There’s always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it’s lived has a far more complex shape.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Through my Instagram, I’m always posting pictures of kitten fosters and if it inspires one person to go to his or her local shelter and adopt, it’s worth it.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
And their pals vote for their stuff when they’re not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
Granted, prostate exams aren’t the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It’s well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don’t get it done.
I won’t apologize for ticket prices. I think we’re well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Everything that’s worth making has to involve some sort of pain.
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that’s what I’ve done here. But it’s worth it to me to be in a really good play.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
I would rather have nothing worth stealing than live my life trying to protect things.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as ‘bad’ and not worth our attention or investment.
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
A thing well done is worth doing.
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
It’s kind of a crazy thing to decide that you’re going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn’t suit everybody.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
I don’t think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it’s inviting them to try and understand them… then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It’s a classic trick, but it’s human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
Your life is always worth living.
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we’re getting one millennium’s worth of media attention in six months.
I’ve made several careers out of people underestimating me – it’s almost an advantage worth cultivating.
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it’s truly funny, then it’s worth doing. Things aren’t worth doing for the sake of being controversial.
It’s worth noting that everything – from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media – were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn’t the case.
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn’t worth it.
You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Always read your contract. Know what you’re getting yourself into. Know your worth.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
As a proud spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris, I have communicated the ‘Because You’re Worth It’ message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
Writing’s still the most difficult job I’ve ever had – but it’s worth it.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Choosing one’s leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch ‘Breaking Bad’ as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play – assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.
To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth – rather than what your employer is paying you.
When you’re bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions – is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It’s about getting it done.
When I win a gold medal in the Olympics… I would say every pain, tears and screams in training will be worth it.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It’s time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
I think I’ll always live in Fort Worth. It’s great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Was there ever a nation on God’s fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
I’m so grateful to God for allowing my dreams to come true. It was worth going through a few tough times, as I am so appreciative for my many, many blessings.
I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn’t want it any other way… it’s worth it.
When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it’s something good, something worth checking out.
But if you can’t relish playing in big games like this then it’s not worth it.
Sometimes it’s easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, ‘Maybe they’re right. Maybe I’m not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.’ But that’s when you should fight the hardest. Now I don’t mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
I don’t think there’s any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don’t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it’s worth trying to know where things come from.
There’s a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before – that is mind-boggling. It’s worth everything.
That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it’s worth every penny.
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren’t worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we’re going to have a country that’s not worth defending.
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only life worth living.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber’ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
If you’re not having fun it’s not worth doing.
Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
I think it’s really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life – full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
I’m going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Don’t underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It’s worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
You have to demand things and believe you’re worth more. And once you do demand them, you’re usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today’s players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I’d look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words’ worth of very necessary experience.
Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage – a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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.
If you can’t eat it, can’t sleep under it, can’t wear it or make something from it, it’s not worth anything.
The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I’ve written hundreds of songs, and I’m sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.
Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you’ll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
You can’t be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars’ worth, then that’s okay.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That’s something worth achieving.
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
A painting that doesn’t shock isn’t worth painting.
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
This business is about working. It’s really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That’s the privilege. And that’s what all the work leads up to, and that’s why it’s worth it to me.
To go to the synagogue with one’s father on the Passover eve – is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one’s friends? Then the prayers themselves – the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it’s a euphemism for sarcasm. ‘I’m not being sarcastic; I’m being ironic.’ No, you’re not. You’re evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
On ‘Avatar’, I learned that it’s worth taking some risks and doing some weird little things with characters or having an off-joke here and there, even if it’s only for 5 percent of the audience.
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody’s backside, it’s worth paying attention.
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
It’s always worth it when you come out here and put on a uniform and step on that field. It’s the best feeling you’ll ever have.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
We’re still leaderless. We still don’t have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn’t a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I’ll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It’s probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn’t affect my movement.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It’s a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I’d just as well not bother.
I like to think that as I get older I’m getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
Recently I’ve been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn’t afford them. Now I can so I’ve been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they’ll be worth a lot of money.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
A friend you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him.
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn’t think they were that great. I didn’t think it was worth putting them in.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
I went to graduate school and paid good money to get an education that’s worth something, but I learned more in the first six months at Wal-Mart than I learned in 5 1/2 years of post-secondary education.
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
I first decided to file a defamation case of Rs 50 Crore against Tanushree Dutta, but then I realized her value is nothing in the country so I chose 25 paisa as the defamation amount. That’s all is her worth.
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
Liberty is worth paying for.
Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is – is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Right now, I’m worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, ‘Uncle Sam, I’m going to pay you 25 grand a month.’
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
No amount of success is worth it to me if I can’t share it with someone I love.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy – and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
I didn’t think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn’t want to do something my parents and daughter couldn’t be proud of.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that’s really worth the time and effort you’ll put in.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
If you want to do this job, you have to really want it because it’s hard. It’s a long road to get here. I moved all over the world, but it’s worth it. I love what I do.
There are certain battles that you pick. When they’re not worth picking, they’re laughable stories.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who’s worth every penny he makes.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
If I can save one kid’s life, for me, it’s absolutely worth it.
You don’t go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it’s the human endeavour.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
I think players need to get paid for what they’re worth, for what they put up on the field.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
While digital wallets are paving the way for the future of payments, you still need to assess whether or not they’ll work for your business. If your target audience are less tech-savvy or you’re primarily a cash-only business, it may not be worth investing too much into accepting digital payments.
When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that’s the reason I’m so ambitious. I felt like I wasn’t appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.
One’s own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That’s what the human family is all about.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth doing.
It’s really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it’s six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it’s 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that’s 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I’ve done three hours worth of work.
The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me – not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.
I am moving towards that zone where I don’t want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, ‘You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don’t do this.’ And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It’s worth $400,000.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.
Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it’s not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it’s worth it.
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you’re not working.
Online one day, you log in, and you realise, ‘This is not me.’ Everything you’re posting, you’re doing it in the context of everything you’ve posted before. Let’s delete everything, save the stuff that’s important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that’s worth keeping.
Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don’t need it.
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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.
My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it’s okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
Like any organizer worth their salt, I’m open to critique, but I won’t be bullied or treated badly. I’m an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
You go out, you order a steak. What do they do? They bring you a salad. They don’t even charge you anything for it, cause it ain’t worth anything, cause it ain’t food!
To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
I’m a Democrat, and that’s worth fighting for.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
Do you know what directors go through? It’s just hell. Like, why do I work so hard – to think I’m only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again ’cause I’m so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don’t agree with me as to their worth.
Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.
It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Only if you love yourself, only if you’re happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
I’ve always put a lot of stock in aesthetics and visuals. I truly believe a picture is worth a thousand words and that fashion and glamour have the power to transport and transform someone.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it’s worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
I’m high maintenance, but I’m worth it.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination’s dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
An Elias performance is worth the price of admission.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like ‘General Relativity still governing planetary orbits’ or ‘Phlogiston theory remains false’? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
It’s just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material – that they’re worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn’t happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.
Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Anchors are those people in your life who remind you of who you are – your values, aspirations, and worth – even when you forget. Keep them close and always let them know how much they mean to you.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn’t happen, none of this is worth it.
There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.
You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
I worked with Seann William Scott on ‘Role Models,’ and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It’s not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep.
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don’t want to spend more time organizing than it’s worth.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you’re telling a story worth telling, it’s worth investing the time into developing.
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn’t take much for this to disappear overnight.
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
People’s jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they’re going to buy a car, they’re more concerned about whether they have a job and are likely to have a job next year.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
A person’s worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
But it’s important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin’ hot. That’s the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.
