Quotes About Worth

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated risks, and then do all you can to make it worth the risk.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

I don't think anyone's worth $100 million if Michael Jordan wasn't, but hey, that's what Abe Pollin thought I was worth, and if someone puts $100 million in front of you, you're gonna take it, too.

America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

When it comes to marketing, creative resources are often worth far more than dollars.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.