Quotes About Worth

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Not all men are worthy of love.

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into "better than" grandiosity nor "less than" shame. But the essence of psychological patriarchy is the nonexistence of such middle ground.

Self-esteem is your capacity to recognize your worth and value, despite your human flaws and weaknesses. Your value as a person isn't earned; it isn't conditional; it can't be added to or subtracted from. Your essential worth is neither greater nor lesser than that of any other human being. It can't be. Self-esteem is about being, not doing. You have worth simply because you're alive.

a product is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.