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Quotes About Worth

The Only Thing in the World Worth a Damn is the Strange, Touching, Pathetic, Awesome Nobility of the Individual Human Spirit.
~ John D. MacDonald
If there's no pain and no loss, it's only recreational and we can leave it to the minks. People have to be valued.
~ John D. MacDonald
The living are worth every final bit of love and energy you can toss into the kitty. The dead are worth tears. Trying to do more for the dead is self-love. It's pride gone bad. It's romantic nonsense.
~ John D. MacDonald
Don't get intrigued. It's not worth it. I'm a high level beach-bum. And I'm about as permanent as a black eye.
~ John D. MacDonald
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.
~ John Eldredge
And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.
~ John Eldredge
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
~ John Fowles
Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that the joy in the day and the passing of the day are inseparable. What makes our existence worthwhile is precisely that its worth and its while - its quality and duration - are as impossible to unravel as time and space in mathematics of relativity.
~ John Fowles
They're teaching you to express personality at the Slade – personality in general. But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. It
~ John Fowles
You know what they say—the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.
~ John Grisham
the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.
~ John Grisham
Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.
~ John H. Walton
What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing . What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever protected anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?
~ John Irving
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods
~ John Jakes
An asset is worth what someone is willing to pay for it; and the value of an asset is the cash it will generate over its life.
~ John Kay
Upon the forehead of humanity. All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship
~ John Keats
A Man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life—a life like the scriptures, figurative—which such people can no more make out than they can the Hebrew Bible. Lord Byron cuts a figure but he is not figurative—Shakspeare led a life of Allegory: his works are the comments on it
~ John Keats
Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
~ Raymond Loewy
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.
~ Martin Margiela
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
~ Nadine Gordimer
The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.
~ Peter George Peterson
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
~ George Santayana