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Quotes About Worth

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
~ Unknown
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
Is a life worth living, without no one to love and to be loved in return?
~ Unknown
It is well to love even a dog when you have the opportunity, for fear you should find nothing else worth loving
~ Unknown
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control." "What about brains?" Ethan asks. "What are they worth?" "Brains are pretty much illegal.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The prince has grand dreams." "Is it worth it to have any other kind?
~ Mary E. Pearson
I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
~ Mary Griffith
You think a king worth more than other men? Xau did not, despite my efforts to correct his misconception.
~ Unknown
Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another's arms, and win acclaim for my death-defying stunts.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
~ Mason Cooley
Secular humanism finds that human life is meaningful and worthy, for no better reason than we judge life to be meaningful and worthy. Needing to be told by a higher authority how life is meaningful only deprives our lives of their intrinsic worth. Dignity and autonomy cannot depend on someone else, not even a god, who decides that you are worthy—one must affirm one's own right to live for oneself.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status on popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.
~ Matt Haig
Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realised she would have to cast a wider net.
~ Matt Haig
Don't think your work matters more than it does.
~ Matt Haig
person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.
~ Matt Haig
Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status or popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.
~ Matt Haig
Likes, favorites, retweets. Ignore it. Ratings are no sign of worth. Never judge yourself on them. To be liked by everyone you would have to be the blandest person ever. William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realized she would have to cast a wider net. Mrs. Elm was right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.
~ Matt Haig