Quotes About Worth

And I think it's about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource—individual worth.

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Yeah, I'm Governor, Jack, and the trouble with governors is they think they got to keep their dignity. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

That things were mysterious did not make them less valuable.

Look, I've got to be somewhere ten minutes ago. I'm not about to leave you here with eight thousand dollars' worth of office equipment unless I have some collateral. You want the job or not?" "I want it." "Good. Then you can lend me your car. I'll call you from the road, fill you in on everything else while I drive. Answer the phone and be ready to take notes.

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

she pronounced in an interview in 1964.10 'My father was a gentleman of substance, and never did a hand's turn in his life, and he was a most agreeable man.' He was also a fool, although not intellectually stupid by any means. He knew exactly the worth of the people around him, but it was not in his nature to present to them anything other than his 'agreeable' front.

I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. It was my turn to be quiet. Did you take it? Would I be calling you if I had? Maybe, I said. He laughed. True, but I'm not going to take it. Why not? Friendship. Try again, I said. I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you. Comforting...

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

She's packing at least five grand worth of orthodontia, but has great shoes.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

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

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.