Worth Quotes

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy

Democracy, Individual, Dignity

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
Arthur Smith

Since, Won, Turning

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
Eric Liu

End, Why, Matter

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Colin Quinn

Life, Living, Tell

I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.
Nicole Polizzi

Die, Problem, Actually

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Society, Person, Quite

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
Jane Campion

Poetry, Mean, Effort

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian

Teacher, Mind, Effort

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquhar

Life, Money, Men

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell

Love, Laughter, Winning

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
Julian Bond

Education, School, Children

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman

Marriage, Work, Family

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
Gisele Bundchen

Life, Family, Good

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.
George Clooney

Makes, Might, Hollywood

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

Poetry, Others, Dead

It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.
David Walliams

Work, Fun, Hard

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Feeling, Knowing, Maybe

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold

Education, Process, Soon

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

Enough, Less, Naive

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Claude Bernard

True, Seek, Experiment

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.
Leon Panetta

May, Able, Deal

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
Brooke Burke

Time, Good, Bad

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower

Energy, Next, Present

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
Enoch Powell

Battle, Fighting, Last

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

Place, Shortcuts

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook

Life, Person, Living

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.
Sue Wicks

Today, Humble, Sense

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
Idris Elba

Water, Jail, Million

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
Tippi Hedren

Money, Parents, Away

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
Kristin Davis

Life, Great, Nice

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