300 Quotes on Worth

• When the rest of the world stirs in chaos, silent resolve echoes like a flowing stream, carving paths toward unseen horizons.

  Author: Miranda Chen

• The unseen tapestry of diligence silently stitches the fabric of greatness, connecting ambitions that go anonymous, entwined in serenity's strength.

  Author: Aria Solis

• Embrace the silence between possessions; it whispers the peace you may never find in excess.

  Author: Nora Winslow

• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

  Author: David Zucker

• I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

  Author: Edward Young

• If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

  Author: Don Young

• It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

  Author: John Yoo

• I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

  Author: Frank Woolley

• In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

  Author: Kathleen Winsor

• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  Author: Tad Williams

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  Author: Mae West

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.

  Author: Mae West

• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  Author: Mae West

• Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

  Author: Stanley Weiser

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

  Author: Booker Washington

• There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

  Author: Charles Warner

• The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

  Author: Izaak Walton

• There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

  Author: George Wald

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

  Author: Mark Wahlberg

• All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

  Author: Voltaire

• The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Liberty is worth paying for.

  Author: Jules Verne

• Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

  Author: Scott Turow

• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

  Author: John Tuley

• An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

  Author: John Tukey

• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

  Author: Peter Thomson

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  Author: Irving Thalberg

• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

  Author: Anne Swetchine

• And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

  Author: Lynn Swann

• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

  Author: William Sumner

• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

  Author: Anna Strong

• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

  Author: Levi Strauss

• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

  Author: Howard Stern

• You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

  Author: John Spong

• I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

  Author: Art Spiegelman

• I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Author: Robert Southey

• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

  Author: Socrates

• To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

  Author: Lillian Smith

• I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

  Author: Anna Smith

• The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

  Author: Albion Small

• To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

  Author: Joshua Slocum

• Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Author: Beverly Sills

• A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

  Author: Ben Shneiderman

• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  Author: William Sherman

• When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

  Author: George Shaw

• I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

  Author: George Shaw

• There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  Author: Ernest Shackleton

• The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

  Author: Frank Serpico

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell

• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

  Author: Walter Scott

• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Author: Robert Scott

• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  Author: Paul Scofield

• Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Author: Virginia Satir

• If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

  Author: George Santayana

• Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Author: Babe Ruth

• I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

  Author: Richard Russo

• If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

  Author: Kurt Russell

• Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  Author: John Ruskin

• A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

  Author: John Ruskin

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

  Author: John Ruskin

• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

  Author: J. Rowling

• Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

  Author: Will Rogers

• The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

  Author: Robert Rodriguez

• But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

  Author: Frederick Robertson

• There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Author: Jay Roach

• The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

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

  Author: Mary Retton

• Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

  Author: John Reagan

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Author: Herbert Read

• At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

  Author: Satyajit Ray

• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

  Author: Joseph Ratzinger

• A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

  Author: Dee Ramone

• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Author: Quintilian

• But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  Author: Robert Quillen

• It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

  Author: Kyle Pruett

• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

  Author: George Prentice

• It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

  Author: Terry Pratchett

• No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

  Author: J. Powell

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

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  Author: Abraham Polonsky

• Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

  Author: John Polanyi

• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Author: Plato

• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

  Author: Bum Phillips

• Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

  Author: Emo Philips

• Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

  Author: Emo Philips

• If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

  Author: Oscar Peterson

• I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  Author: Anne Perry

• Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

  Author: Ross Perot

• A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

  Author: Alan Perlis

• Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

  Author: James Penney

• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

  Author: William Penn

• I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

  Author: Bill Paxton

• You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

  Author: Jean Paul

• I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

  Author: Jason Patric

• If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

  Author: Alan Paton

• Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

  Author: Joe Paterno

• I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

  Author: Robert Parker, Jr.

• A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

  Author: Chuck Palahniuk

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

  Author: Jesse Owens

• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Author: Ovid

• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

  Author: Ovid

• To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

  Author: Rudolf Otto

• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

  Author: William Osler

• Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

  Author: George Orwell

• Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

  Author: Christine O'Donnell

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

  Author: Chuck Norris

• What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

  Author: Emil Nolde

• The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

  Author: Albert Nock

• 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.

  Author: Albert Nock

• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Author: Louis Nizer

• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

  Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  Author: Randy Newman

• You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

  Author: Willie Nelson

• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

  Author: Gloria Naylor

• I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

  Author: George Nathan

• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

  Author: Iris Murdoch

• And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  Author: John Mortimer

• Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

  Author: John Morley

• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  Author: Samuel Morison

• Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

  Author: Michael Moriarty

• The data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global warming are so rough and primitive, compared to what's needed, and so unreliable that they are not even worth mentioning by respectful scientists.

  Author: Gregory Moore

• The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

  Author: Mary Montagu

• Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

  Author: Moliere

• I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

  Author: Matthew Modine

• To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

  Author: Margaret Mitchell

• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  Author: Laura Miller

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

  Author: John Mill

• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Author: Michelangelo

• When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

  Author: William Melbourne

• The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  Author: Ed McMahon

• Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.

  Author: Roger McGough

• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

  Author: Karl Marx

• A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

  Author: Thurgood Marshall

• By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

  Author: Don Marquis

• Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

  Author: Jacques Maritain

• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  Author: Edouard Manet

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  Author: Og Mandino

• It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.

  Author: Howie Mandel

• One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

  Author: Dudley Malone

• Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

  Author: Norman Mailer

• A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

  Author: Robert Lynd

• If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

  Author: Brian Lumley

• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  Author: James Lowell

• One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

  Author: James Lovelock

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  Author: H. Lovecraft

• I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.

  Author: Lara Logan

• And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.

  Author: James Lipton

• Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

  Author: Arthur Levitt

• It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

  Author: Gotthold Lessing

• This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• A thing well done is worth doing.

  Author: Hugh Leonard

• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

  Author: Gypsy Lee

• Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

  Author: Stanislaw Lec

• It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

  Author: Franklin Lane

• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  Author: Walter Landor

• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

  Author: Edwin Land

• A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

  Author: Charles Lamb

• I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

  Author: Steve Lacy

• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Author: Ray Kurzweil

• Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.

  Author: Kris Kristofferson

• An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

  Author: Michael Korda

• An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

  Author: Michael Korda

• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  Author: Ted Koppel

• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Author: Rem Koolhaas

• Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

  Author: Nigel Kneale

• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Author: Rudyard Kipling

• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Author: Rudyard Kipling

• One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

  Author: Michael Kinsley

• It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

  Author: Klaus Kinski

• What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

  Author: Thomas King

• Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

  Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski

• I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

  Author: Tracy Kidder

• One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

  Author: Eli Khamarov

• Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

  Author: Mark Kelly

• Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  Author: Alan Kay

• No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

  Author: Jon Jovi

• The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

  Author: Neil Jordan

• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  Author: Rafer Johnson

• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

  Author: Jewel

• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

  Author: Alice James

• Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

  Author: Mick Jagger

• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Author: Charles Jaffe

• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

  Author: John Irving

• What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

  Author: Jeremy Irons

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