Worth Quotes

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

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.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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

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.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

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

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

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

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

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.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

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.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.