Worth Quotes

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.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

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.

If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.