Quotes About Worth

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

What worth was a man who could not be haunted?

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.