Worth Quotes

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.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

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.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

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.

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.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

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.