Worth Quotes

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

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

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

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

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

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

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.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

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

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.