Worth Quotes

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.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.