Quotes About Worth

To estimate what a type of man is worth, one must calculate the price paid for his preservation — one must know the conditions of his existence.

These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission in life for itself than applying the categories of the material to the spiritual, of the physical to the mental, and the spatio-temporal to the eternal.

Salt was expensive, however, and so was used only with varieties of fish and meat that had demonstrated a capacity for surviving the preservation process in a reasonably appetizing state and were therefore regarded as "worth their salt.

But if a good heart, a good intention, a subjective conviction are declared to be the sources from which actions derive their worth, then there is no longer any hypocrisy or evil at all; for whatever someone does, he can always turn it into something good through reflecting on his good intentions and motives, and so the moment of his convictions renders it good.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

He told me, "You haven't earned a spot on my desk. When you do something worthwhile or impressive, I'll put your picture on my desk.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.

Some mistakes are worth making twice.

Money often costs too much.' —Ralph Waldo Emerson

the best ones are often the most difficult to find. But

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

The world is full of precious garbage.

You can't live the life you want, and you can't earn the death you think you deserve.

When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

He saw in this the road to a new sense of group identity, a self-conscious role in history, and above all a sense of man's own worth which he claimed the white man had destroyed in the Negro.

To the very end, Malcolm sought to refashion the broken strands between the American Negroes and African culture. He saw in this the road to a new sense of group identity, a self-conscious role in history, and above all a sense of man's own worth which he claimed the white man had destroyed in the Negro.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.