Quotes About Worth

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

I was always desired. But now i am valued. And that is a different thing, i find.

But what's the point? he thinks. She would die and leave me. Or I would die and leave her. It's not worth it. Nobody's worth it.

People confuse early rising with moral worth;

You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

But let me quote President Theodore Roosevelt: 'Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

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

Unele fiin?e sunt ca ni?te zerouri, le trebuie o cifr? înainte, ?i numai atunci nimicnicia lor dobânde?te o valoare neb?nuit?. Eu nu pot dobândi valoare decât printr-o alian?? cu o voin?? puternic?, neînduplecat?.

Kaunis ei ole sen arvoista kuin kestävä, ja kestävä, se olen minä!

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

Labor is the true standard of value.

In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted with challenge, and bravery in the face of fear.

For many of these women, the root of their injury stems from a damaged relation with the father. They may have been wounded by a bad relation to their personal father, or wounded by the patriarchal society which itself functions like a poor father, culturally devaluing the worth of women.

The money is as good as you are.

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

Por eso no tenía paciencia para con la descabellada distinción entre arte y artesanía que ponía a esta última en situación de desventaja desde un punto de vista comercial. Una jarra de barro para agua no valía prácticamente nada, pero si tenía un agujero en el fondo y era «arte», se podía pedir por ella un ojo de la cara. ¿No era una putada?

Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth. They accept it in exchange for goods and services because they have faith in it.

Money is worth what people feel it's worth. . . . Without millions of individual citizens believing in a currency, money is colored paper.

Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.