Worthless Quotes

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Awareness without action is worthless.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.

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

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.