Quotes About Worth

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.

We would not give it thee for all the gold in the world.

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

In other words, Job is saying to God: If I am important enough for You to keep track of my every mistake and punish me for them, then am I not worth five minutes of Your time to tell me what I am being punished for? And if I am too insignificant to merit Your personal attention, then why am I important enough for You to measure out my punishment?

Everything in this world that is truly worth doing takes practice. Courage is no exception.

It is not how long you work at some task that determines what you'll receive for it in exchange. It is the value someone else places upon the product or service that determines what it is worth in exchange. Your "costs" are not important to the other person. He only cares about the value of the product to himself. What he'll pay to get your service is based solely on the value he places upon the object

It is not how long you work at some task that determines what you'll receive for it in exchange. It is the value someone else places upon the product or service that determines what it is worth in exchange.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world

for me to ask for a raise is—is demeaning.

I'm as big as snob as they come, but money is a terrible barometer of a person's worth. The standard I used is what a person is choosing to do with his life. So for me a struggling musician (someone dedicated to their craft, not some slacker) is much better than some lame investment banker. And the fact that she lied seemed like she was ashamed. She dismissed my anger as if I were overreacting.

And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort

engages in the 105th hour of an ongoing discussion about Bill's Bad Knee, which includes speculation, revised imaginary diagnoses, and in-depth analysis of a level of pain that she herself would file under Not Worth Mentioning at All, Ever, Not Even for a Fucking Second?

Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning.

Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee's Principles for Community

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Durante los años noventa el relato era un requisito imprescindible para cualquier proyecto político: y el relato consistía en explicar por qué un movimiento político o un partido merecía tomarse en serio y por qué valía la pena creer y difundir sus mensajes esenciales.

But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's contribution to that society. In other words, society should make it worth people's while to give their best to the country. This is the way to progress.

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit.