Worth Quotes

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

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.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

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.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.