Quotes About Worth

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist, while satisfying to the soul and politically correct, is not scientifically defensible.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

What would be the worth of a body whose marvelous functionings were not operating? How would consciousness spherically unfold itself within a frozen form not tending toward natural fluidity?

In the narrow application of logic to limited problems some degree of objectivity is perhaps possible. But in the broil of the wider human experience, in deciding what is good and true and beautiful and worth living for in this world, there is so much sheer humanness at work (and there should be, that the claim of cool, rational objectivity is almost laughable.

In the early American republic, the most significant challenge to the traditional assumption that the worth of human beings depended on their race, class, and gender came from the scriptural teachings that all are equal in the sight of God and all are one in Christ.

Money is only for those who deserved it.

Ma chère, si vous ne valez pas la peine d'être aimée, vous ne valez pas la peine non plus d'être haïe.

the way the diamond caused people to reasses her--their palpable appreciation that Drew was loved by someone, was someone worth loving

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Maybe it's still worth it to me, even if it doesn't last forever," he said. "Maybe you're still worth it to me.

cultural values or art treasures destroyed forever, are a tragic proof of where discrimination and contempt of human dignity can lead, especially if they are animated by perverse theories on a presumed difference in the value of races or on the division of men into men of "high worth," "worthy of living," and men who are "worthless," "unworthy of living." Before God, all men are of the same value and importance. (Italics added.)

Sharp disaster in a fresh new coma Was it worth it when it was over

People value happiness by what it costs.

if a friendship exists only because it benefits us personally, then perhaps it's a lesser kind of relationship. Kant would say that friends have to be ends in themselves, not means. Friendship has 'intrinsic', not mere 'instrumental' worth.

HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist's work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third's a zinger: Was it worth doing?

No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original.

On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them.

Tom, I'm really sorry. I can tell you're having a hard time forgiving me. Would you be any different? No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.