Worth Quotes

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't always understand my worth.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.