Quotes About Worth

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

The importance of condition in a book is much the same as condition in a used automobile. A used Ford in fine running condition is worth far more than a smashed-up Cadillac beyond repair.

numerosas investigaciones demuestran que reducir la distancia ante un objeto hace que parezca que este merece más la pena.

Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,The birthplace of valor, the country of worth!Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Although it was pure luck that the book Improvement of the Mind fell into his hands, it took someone with such focus to recognize immediately its worth and exploit

Thus for my own part I have more than once been deceived by the person I loved most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth, but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, 1478-1529

Todo lo que es gratuito es peligroso, ya que por lo general implica alguna treta o un compromiso oculto. Las cosas que tienen costo valen la pena pagarse. De esta manera, no estará obligado a gratitud alguna, se verá libre de culpa y evitará fraudes y engaños. Lo más inteligente es, a menudo, pagar el precio total. Cuando hablamos de excelencia no hay gangas. Sea generoso con su dinero y hágalo circular, dado que la generosidad es señal e imán de poder.

judge all things by what they cost you.

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

What is offered for free is dangerous--it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.

Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto

The achiever is usually in an internal struggle. He struggles against what he believes and what he thinks he must do to make himself feel good. The trick in our lives is to get the two together. An internal sense of worth is just as important to the healthy man as an external sense of worth. However, it takes a healthy man to realize this.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof that it is worth paying.

Oh, very well. The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

There's always the question of price, isn't there? Some prices I might not want to pay.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

prize isn't worth the arrow

the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;

Possessed by the grasp of quality and connoisseurship, he knew and measured the worth of man's visible heritage and determined, in the midst of constant change, to preserve and enhance that heritage so that it might be visible to anyone with eyes to see."30