Quotes About Worth

The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person's intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person. Modesty, then, is not about hiding one's body but about revealing one's worth. It is an invitation to contemplation. It conceals certain parts of the body not because they are bad, but in order to invite others to discover one's full value as a person, thus opening a way toward love.

Not doing something that isn't worth doing is a wonderful way to spend your time.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

I'd like to explore whether a raise for me might make sense. From the information I have, I think I deserve one. [Here's my reasoning.] I wonder how you see it?

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion, you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your sense of self there.

He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive. I must have a great deal of money.

This would enable them to develop those noneconomic virtues—intelligence, unselfishness, courage, decency—which he loosely defined as "character." Character determined the worth of the individual, and "what is true of the individual is also true of the nation.

It's been my experience, observed Emma McChesney, that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much.

God's already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He's sick to the nucleus of His soul. He's not going to show Himself—you're not worth His time. God's gone. He's fuckin' busy, man.

The character of God is the basis for our connection to him, not our intrinsic worth. Self-worth, or anything we think would make us acceptable to God, would suit our pride but it has the disturbing side-effect of making the cross of Jesus Christ less valuable. If we have worth in ourselves, there is no reason to connect to the infinite worth of Jesus and receive what he has done for us.

The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Tú estás solo, pero no por eso mereces morir.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that

It doesn't matter if the compensation scheme is denominated in hundreds of thousands of pounds per week or in bags of potato crisps. It's all a matter of relative worth, because a lot of people either feel, or want to feel that they are more valuable than anyone else.

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.