Quotes About Worth

For the labourer is worthy of his hire.

Human life was worth little.

I know in my heart that man is good," the inscription on Reagan's tombstone reads, "that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

We were told that the drugs will destroy the sons and daughters of the West, and that we must kill them. Their lives are worth less because they are not Muslims.

We are taught desire rather than deserve. Just because we want it must mean we are able to get it, right?

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.

Talvez a definição de lar seja o local onde você nunca é perdoado, então você sempre vai se encaixar lá, presa pela culpa. E talvez o custo de pertencer a algum lugar valha a pena.

But is life worth living in the wrong form?" said Elphie. "The interior doesn't change," she answered, "except by self-involvement. Of which be not afraid, and also beware.

What is there that makes my life worth preserving? "I love you," said Elphaba. "So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her, and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful." Careful of us both, he thought. So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

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

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

The rewards of great living are not external things, withheld until the crowning hour of success arrives; they come by the way, — in the consciousness of growing power and worth, of duties nobly met, and work thoroughly done. To the true artist, working always in humility and sincerity, all life is a reward, and every day brings a deeper satisfaction. Joy and peace are by the way.

Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'?

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.