Worth Quotes

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

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.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Some things are worth the splurge.

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.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.