Worth Quotes

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

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.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't always understand my worth.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

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.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.