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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid

Difficult, Task, Attempt

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.
Daniel Radcliffe

Show, Actor, Wants

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard

Future, Sacrifice, Attention

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney

Leadership, Trust, Confidence

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

Education, Men, Hand

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Lady Gaga

Heart, Book, Bring

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.
David Bowie

Life, Work, Him

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Michelle Obama

History, Made, Causes

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Judge, Everything, Down

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Often, Name, Sign

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Character, True, Race

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca

Try, Rather, Deal

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Stanley Kubrick

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Albert J. Nock

Thought, Small, Moment

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran

Yourself, Since, Late

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education, Able, Read

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott

Life, Men, Mean

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Lady Gaga

Year, Grand, Expensive

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady Gaga

Music, Time, Write

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert

Humor, Knowledge, Wit

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Art, Nothing

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins

Nothing, Living, Few

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar Gracian

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Truth, Kindness, Human

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
Henny Youngman

Why, Cost, Jewish

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton

Find, Others, Less

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Art, Number

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
Vera Wang

Life, Everything, Done

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stupid, May, Problem

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.
Dan Savage

Life, Good, Best

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