Quotes About Worth

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

For indeed whatsoever proceeds from the gods, deserves respect for their worth and excellency; and whatsoever proceeds from men, as they are our kinsmen, should by us be entertained, with love, always; sometimes, as proceeding from their ignorance, of that which is truly good and bad, (a blindness no less, than that by which we are not able to discern between white and black:) with a kind of pity and compassion also.

every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. In

3. Pointless bustling of processions, opera arias, herds of sheep and cattle, military exercises. A bone flung to pet poodles, a little food in the fish tank. The miserable servitude of ants, scampering of frightened mice, puppets jerked on strings. Surrounded as we are by all of this, we need to practice acceptance. Without disdain. But remembering that our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

everyone is worth just so much as those things are worth in which he is interested.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth something.

I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value.

He manages to appear puzzled, as if he can't quite remember how we all got in here. As if we are something he inherited, like a Victorian pump organ, and he hasn't figured out what to do with us. What we are worth.

Money was the only measure of worth, for everyone, they got no respect as mothers.

Todas queremos que nuestro enamorado sea amado por una mujer digna de él, pero jamás que sea más digna que nosotras. —Habladme de esta casa —dije—.

A man's worth is measured by his importance to society and to humanity generally

The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.

Not all bits have equal value.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don't matter and people that think you don't matter.