Quotes About Worth

Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.

You know how sorry he is Nan. You must know how he'd give any of us the moon after he's been—not himself." "It's too high a price to pay for the moon

Specht says, It meant I know you think I'm worth it , because that's what it was with the guys in the room. They were going to take a woman and make her the object. I was defensive and defiant. I thought, I'll fight you. Don't you tell me what I am. You've been telling me what I am for generations.

How do you define a life of high personal worth and lasting success?

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

If your dreams are priceless, they are worth more than your pain.

No one should ever be allowed to make you feel unworthy of becoming wealthy. Your wealth lies mainly upon your understanding of your worth.

Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?

You are mostly treated by others, the way you deserve.

There is cost for everything.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, to put your feelings behind your face so you can take advantage of hidden opportunities. Why easy things are not worth pursuing. How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie.

I want writers to write books as actions. I want writers to write books that can make a difference in how, and even why, people live. I want writers to write books that are worth being jailed for, worth fighting for, and should it come to that in this country, worth dying for.

Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?

What made it happen? What made it not happen? Thinking of a cure, a week away from the city, a dinner party with other geniuses, a new rug, a new shirt, a new way to hold him in bed, and failing and failing and somehow, at random, succeeding. Was it worth it?

What god has enough free time to arrange this very special humiliation, to fly a minor novelist across the world so that he can feel, in some seventh sense, the minusculitude of his own worth?