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Quotes About Worth

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.
~ John Green
A veces pienso que nos pasamos tanto tiempo tomando precauciones contra eventualidades terribles que no nos queda gran cosa que valga la pena.
~ John Katzenbach
A Man's life of any worth is a continual allegory—and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life—a life like the scriptures, figurative…. Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative—Shakespeare led a life of Allegory: his works are the comments on it.
~ John Keats
I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer therell be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!
~ John Kilian Houston Brunner
Carl's concept of freedom had come to be embodied by a mariner in a storm, wholly responsible for himself, accountable to no one else, asking no quarter from the sea, measuring his worth by his immediate actions.
~ John Kretschmer
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
~ John Locke
gold, silver, and diamonds, are things that fancy or agreement hath put the value on, more than real use
~ John Locke
Was it worth it, Peredur?" Richard said. "So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death?
~ John M. Ford
We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.
~ John Marco
Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've paid it, that's what I reckon.
~ John Marsden
A woman trash is another one treasure.
~ Eliotz Cesar
But that was a long time ago, and life was as worth living now as it had been then. She would not willingly give up the present to have the past again.
~ Elisabeth Ogilvie
Why, conquering May prove as lordly and complete a thing In lifting upward, as in crushing low! And as a vanquished soldier yields his sword To one who lifts him from the bloody earth, Even so, Belovëd, I at last record, Here ends my strife. If thou invite me forth, I rise above abasement at the word. Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This life's a dream, a fleeting show!' no indeed. That isn't my 'doxy.' I don't think that nothing is worth doing, but that everything is worth doing — everything good, of course — and that everything which does good for a moment does good for ever, in art as well as in morals.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Is that so surprising, that you should be desirable?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Protein is not so difficult to obtain these diar that it's worth depriving the galaxy of an astrophysicist or a poet in order to eke out few more eggs.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Or perhaps all that white served to mark him as a virgin sacrifice, which was a thought worth a slightly hysterical giggle.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Your self-doubt resides elsewhere and calcifies until it's not even doubt anymore. You are certain that everything else about you is bad. You're definitely not the best person. You're not the prettiest, you're not the thinnest, you're not the smartest, you're not the -est anything, except when it comes to singing. You do know how talented you are. This may be the only thing about you that you know is truly good.
~ Elizabeth Crane
She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.
~ Elizabeth Kelly
A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation—born from the body's factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?" He smiled. "What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold the world in my arms?
~ Elizabeth Morgan