Quotes About Worth

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

Someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, now commonly applied to economists Imagine

Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store.

A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character 'consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will' (XXV 1174).

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."—Warren Buffett

Just because something is more expensive doesn't make it better!