Worth Quotes

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam in the history we make today.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

The essence of leadership is to get others to do something because they think you want it done and because they know it is worth while doing.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and worth of human personality.

Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth. Every man has rights that are neither conferred by, nor derived from the State - they are God-given.

The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God's children.

Deep down in our nonviolent creed is the conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they're worth dying for.

In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.

We must massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values.

I have always been very much struck by the advantage enjoyed by people who lived at an earlier period of the world than one's own. They had the first opportunity of saying the right thing. Over and over again it has happened to me to think of something which I thought was worth saying, only to find that it had been already exploited, and very often spoiled, before I had an opportunity of saying it.

We are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.

I don't believe in gate-crashing. The people aren't up there when I'm sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I'm selling my heart.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.