Worth Quotes

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

A thing well done is worth doing.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.