Is It Worth It Quotes (page 5)

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• insecurity
• may
• society

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. Mark Van Doren

• thinking
• sometimes
• movie

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture. Michel Gondry

• freedom
• connotations
• worth

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi

• love
• personality
• heart

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. Marie de France

• freedom
• fighting
• mean

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• evening
• hard
• gentleman

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• alone
• leaving
• thing

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone! Henry S. Haskins

• achievement
• once
• achieve

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? Emile M. Cioran

• saying
• empowering
• life sayings

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. Guy Kawasaki

• hurt
• not worth it
• crowning

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey

• feeling
• thinking
• thoughts

It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth nothing or he is worth something. If he is worth something then he will try to be worth something more as is only normal in anyone who wants to get on. I can think of no other way to explain artistic development. Maurice Chevalier

• song
• earth
• tears

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• life
• life is not worth living
• pleasures

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. George Bernard Shaw

• work
• thinking
• gift

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for. Philip Pullman

• beauty
• life is beautiful
• life

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. Stephen Fry