Quotes with worth

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions.

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Show my head to the people — it is worth seeing.

Let others wear the martyr's crown; I am not worth of this honor.

If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.

The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

They have a big to-do when you're born. Father passes out cigars, and that is a big event. And there's also a big event when you die. Friends, everybody goes, goes to the funeral; they stand around and about you. But those two events are not as important as the thing in between. The thing in between there called life, and if you use that constructively and for all that it's worth, then I think you've got a good life.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

We are all born equal-equally helpless and equally indebted to others for whatever our survival turns out to be worth.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection -- it is worth living for. It exists. It has been -- it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.

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.

Theology -- An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

Back then, [baseball] was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was stupid, I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time. I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful.

There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

We don’t want any child to go without seeing Santa, but it’s not worth bringing your child to the mall, infecting the Santa and infecting the other children.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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

In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself.

Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them.

A peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.