Quotes About Worth

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.

If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

Here's an analogy I like: guilt is a runaway wagon down the mountainside. It may carry you a long way, but it usually ends in disaster. Love, on the other hand, is much slower--just your own two feet, really," she said, casting a meaningful look at Tess. 'But it's more likely to take you somewhere worth going.

You don't need me or Gus to make you a princess. You are loved by God and that alone makes you royalty.

What something is worth isn't always tied to money.

I am no longer as inspired by expertise as I once was. Perhaps the worth of any lifetime is measured more in kindness than in competency.

You Have a Gift, and It Is Immensely Valuable

some things cost more than you realize

And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live? - Nothing but that he was afraid to die.

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

A PBR wasn't just a brand of blue-collar beer, it was also someone who was not dominated by neurosis, ambition, or ego. It was a person who was relatively honest, rational, and reasonable most of the time; a man or woman who had a general sense of his or her own worth and limitations, who acknowledged the worth of others, who demonstrated a sense of humor, and didn't take him- or herself too seriously.

There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

Time can be measurable but its value can not be measurable

This world has no idea what you're really worth. Around here you are, at best, useful. You fit into a market niche or a voting bloc or some other impersonal category, to be manipulated for someone's selfish agenda.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

Look, dry-aged meat is amazing and certainly worth buying when you can afford it.

I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.

In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.