Quotes About Worth

Well, if your books cost what they're worth, I couldn't afford them.

Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

The money you earned is proof of the value you provided. The money you earned is proof of your worth having been recognized.

Paris is well worth a Mass.

C'est tellement triste quand le bonheur s'arrête que je suis pas sûr qu'il vaille le coup.

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.

A beautiful woman is worth her weight always in gold; but if she loves in addition, she has simply no price.

Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

I may have appeared strange and queer then,' he thought, 'but I was not so mad as I seemed. On the contrary, I was then wiser and had more insight than at any other time, and understood all that is worth understanding in life, because … because I was happy.

those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments.

But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact—that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes, it was awful, but it was so.

When did anybody ever sell anything without being told immediately after the sale, 'It was worth much more'? But when one wants to sell, no one will give anything….

Pierre's insanity consisted in the fact that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and, loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

Solo el alma cuenta y debe dominar a todo lo demás. Corta o larga, la vida solo vale la pena si no tenemos que avergonzarnos de ella en el momento en que hay que devolverla