- Nov 07, 2020
Worth Quotes
On value that only shows itself with time.
These worth quotes weigh value in different ways — skills that turn out worthless in practice, a refusal to fight over things not worth the trouble, and the idea that true worth only shows up over time rather than immediately. The theme runs close to Good quotes, another collection about what actually matters.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
- Money
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
- Life
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
- Civilization
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
- Democracy
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There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.
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