Quotes with worth

Quotes 321 till 340 of 418.

  • Albert J. Nock 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
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Gore Vidal The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Tom Morris The unlived life is not worth examining.
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  • Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • J. Adams The worth of everey conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Cate Blanchett There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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