Worth Quotes

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

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.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

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.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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

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

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

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.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

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.

Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

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

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it.

Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it's right, it's worth it. It's just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

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.

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

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.