Worth Quotes

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.