Quotes About Worth

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

The world is surely not worth living now, is it?

ella ha debido casarse con este patán creyendo que no hay otros que valgan más que él. Es lamentable. Y yo debo procurar que, por culpa mía, no vaya a arrepentirse de su elección.»

By God!  Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

Who counts in this world and how much? Who does the deciding? Who has "potential" (that is, value) and who does not?

No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose. . . I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay.

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What are you going to get when you trade your freedom away? Check to see what your proud new possessions will be worth.

I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

One of the rules that emerges from a consideration of the factors that promote self-sacrifice is that we are less ready to die for what we have or are than for what we wish to have and to be. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worthwhile lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause.

A movement's call for action evokes an eager response in the frustrated, for they see in action a cure for all that ails them. It brings self-forgetting and gives them a sense of purpose and worth. Indeed it seems that frustration stems chiefly from an inability to act, and that the most poignantly frustrated are those whose talents and temperament equip them ideally for a life of action but are condemned by circumstances to rust away in idleness.

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.

We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Life is worthwhile in itself

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

When we revere our human form we respect other human beings, who are so similar to us, for their innate worth. This is the starting place for developing a social conscience.