Quotes About Worth

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.

you are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.

Everything is becoming so shappy these days. So lacking in worth. I just don't feel like joing the trend. - Fenton Wood-Lacy

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

a life without investigation is not worth living

And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

And I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name as an illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

But why dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.

It is the duty of us, the founders, then, said I, to compel the best natures to attain the knowledge which we pronounced the greatest, and to win to the vision of good, to scale the ascent, and when they have reached the heights and taken an adequate view, we must not allow what is now permitted. What is that? That they should linger there, I said, and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.

On the contrary, I believe it doesn't make much sense to say that one man is worth more than another. One man can be stronger than another but less wise. Or more educated but not so brave. Or more generous but also more stupid. So his value depends on what you want from him; a man can be very good at his job, and worthless if you set him to do some other job.

The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing.

All men are greater than dead men.

Kill me," he said. "I'd rather be a useless corpse than a useful fool.

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not.

Well, maybe Lily and I aren't going to end up together. Maybe we're mismatched." "No, no, no," Sofia said. "A mismatch is the only kind of match that's worth making. Surely you know that by now. Are Boomer and I alike? Not at all. Are you and Lily practically the same person? Oh, no. And thank god for that. A match is two separate things coming together. Otherwise you're not a match, you're…a set. Two identical spoons. Boring.

And I've learned that letting people get close to you doesn't always lead to pain. Some people are actually worth a risk.

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

Raising Amity provided sufficient meaning to make any life worth living. He didn't say as much to Amity

Is it worth something?" "At retail, from a collector, it would bring forty thousand dollars, maybe a few thousand less.