Quotes on Worth

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

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

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

We think the way we do partly because Socrates thought the way he did. His basic idea - that the unexamined life is not worth living - is what it means to live in the modern world, to develop ideas and ask questions.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.

Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.

Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.