Quotes about worth

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“Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.”

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

“She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.”

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

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

“If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.”

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”

“Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace)
(To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)”

“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“So he's worth a second shot?

The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?”

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

“The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.”

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.”

“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever”

“… [A]nything worth dying for… is certainly worth living for.”

“Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.”

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”

“and sometimes I sit
down at my typewriter
and I think
not of someone
cause there isn't anyone
to think
about and i wonder
is it worth it”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

“No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about… One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”

“Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

“(…)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”

“Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.”

“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”

“First Emma. Now Thad. Regin was sick and tired of non-evil vampiric creatures messing with her millennium's worth of scathing animosity for their species…”

“That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.”

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

“Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.'

'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.”

“The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9)”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.”

“It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

“Come home with me, Acheron. I’ll make it well worth your while. (Artemis)
I have a headache. (Acheron)
You’ve had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis)
And you’ve had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)”

“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”

“Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."

(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)”

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

“"This is bad," said Jace.
"You said that before."
"It seemed worth repeating."”

“Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.”

“I know many lives worth living.”

“I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.”

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

“Kiss me," I said. "Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”

“Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.”

“The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”

“Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.”

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

“Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.
-Jordan”

“The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)”

“Retribution is tricky…. The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.”

“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

“I don't love you. But I see the value of you, the incredible worth of you, more than anyone I've ever known.”

“One picture is worth a thousand words”

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

“My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.”

“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”

“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”

“You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life--that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is--you take the shot.”

“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

“The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.”

“See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.”

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.”

“This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her?

She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.”

“Bob … the Titan … he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That’s the only reason we’re alive.’ She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable.”

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

“Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.”

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

“No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.”

“I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe… but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?”

“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.”

“…. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”