Worth Quotes

Nothing of value is free.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

Do nothing which is of no use.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Health is worth more than learning

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

If you're going to charge someone for something, you have to show them value for it.

It's gratifying to be taken seriously, always.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

It is not surprising ... that democracy has worked better in this country than elsewhere. This belief in the equality of all white folks–making skin color the gauge of worth and of citizenship rights–has caused the lowest to strive to become among the highest. Because of this great ferment, America has become the Utopia of the material world; the land of hope and opportunity. Without the transplanted African in their midst to bolster up the illusion, American would have, unquestionably, been a different place; but instead the shine as served as a mudsill upon which all white people alike can stand and reach toward the stars.... Here is the gift par excellence of the Negro to America.

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Youth is the only thing worth having.