Quotes About Worthless

#1. It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Karl Marx

#2. My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Alan Cumming

#3. And you, you worthless - ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash - .

Emily Bronte

#4. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.
Isabelle Lightwood

Cassandra Clare

#5. The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious nihilism.

Adolf Hitler

#6. I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

Oswald J. Smith

#7. All about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. I

Margery Allingham

#8. He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.

Douglas Coupland

#9. I'd die for him! And he would. Say the word, there's Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.

Amy Lane

#10. A poor, deceived, and half-delirious girl, who, exclaiming that she was the most worthless thing alive or dead, attempted to cast herself into the fire amid all that wrecked and broken trumpery of the world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. I do. I still love him so much. And I feel so worthless because he doesn't love me anymore.

Daria Snadowsky

#12. When they got to Oklahoma there were still more white people waiting for them, squatting on the land the Indians had been promised in the latest worthless treaty. Slow learners, the bunch.

Colson Whitehead

#13. No?" She looked at him incredulously. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.

Cassandra Clare

#14. He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

Ellen Kushner

#15. If life was worthless, what was death?

George R R Martin

#16. My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.
All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Og Mandino

#17. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

James McBride

#18. The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

Reggie Jackson

#19. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#20. The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

Lewis Black

#21. General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Tucker Max

#22. The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

Immortal Technique

#23. Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

Jay Leno

#24. One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Earl Nightingale

#25. And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless,

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Boethius

#27. Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#28. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Sinclair Lewis

#29. Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

Sebastian Faulks

#31. There are no incurable diseases - only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs - only the lack of knowledge.

Avicenna

#32. He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?

Charles Dickens

#33. The obverse of this freedom, of course, is that your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, and so worthless to the world, that no one except you cares whether you do it well, or ever.

Annie Dillard

#34. You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous.

"Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.

H. Beam Piper

#35. A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Drea De Matteo

#36. I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

Greta Garbo

#37. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.

Susa Young Gates

#38. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

Colin Powell

#39. Worthless as wither'd weeds.

Emily Bronte

#40. Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.

Andreas Feininger

#41. Author C. S. Lewis wrote a beautiful and accurate definition of humility: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself ... it is thinking of yourself less." "It is about feeling safe so you can focus on other people. It is not about being in fear and seeing yourself as worthless!

Kimberly Giles

#42. You have a problem wherein you only invest your time and energy into worthless pursuits."
"This isn't worthless."
"There is no 'this'. This is nothing."
"And I am nothing. And as you've always said, you want nothing.

Nora Sakavic

#43. Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Emily Bronte

#44. Knowledge is worthless when your enemy knows you have it.

Linda Massucci

#45. A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Frederick The Great

#46. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Tom Schulman

#47. Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

E.L. Konigsburg

#48. What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.

Fernando Pessoa

#49. Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

Robert A. Heinlein

#50. There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#51. My body is the only thing that's truly mine, so I don't give it away as though it's worthless.

Jeaniene Frost

#52. Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#53. Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Pythagoras

#54. God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.

Billy Graham

#55. Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

Gerald Morris

#56. You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.

Gangaji

#57. Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

Richard Matheson

#58. When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

Neil Abercrombie

#59. A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Antonin Scalia

#60. I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.

Thao Nguyen

#61. I am not, as it turns out, incapable of changing myself or my life. I am not, as it turns out, worthless. I am, in fact, one seriously badass Witch who holds in her hands the power to change the world.

Dianne Sylvan

#62. Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you.

Anonymous

#63. My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.
Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings

Eloisa James

#64. A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

Ken Follett

#65. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#66. Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#67. The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Voltaire

#68. The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

Robert Kiyosaki

#69. The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

Dillon Burroughs

#70. If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#71. I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

Sitting Bull

#72. And I'm not a worthless person. Maybe I've got a lot of problems and pretty much everything is going wrong for me right now, but I'm not worthless.

J.A. Huss

#73. Ordinary professionals focus on giving worthless advises; extra-ordinary professionals focus on giving results.

Ashish Patel

#74. Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

Rick Warren

#75. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Mitt Romney

#76. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. Anyone who tells you that the Yao people never care for their daughters is lying. We may be worthless. We may be raised for another family. But often we are loved and cherished, despite our natal families' best efforts not to have feelings for us.

Lisa See

#78. Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#79. You won't kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We'll make your friend's death look as cute as puppies and kittens compared to yours. It's just too bad that you won't be able to witness it. Bummer." - Patrick Calveri

Tina Nelson

#80. Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

John Naisbitt

#81. Awareness without action is worthless.

Phillip C. McGraw

#82. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Paul Strand

#83. There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#84. My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices.

Ruth Ware

#85. Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Caecilius Statius

#86. Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"
and want to create no value themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#87. If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Yann Martel

#88. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.

Thomas Paine

#89. When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.

Doug Davidson

#90. RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Ambrose Bierce

#91. Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

Tim LaHaye

#92. It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

Herman Melville

#93. But sometimes the monster in the closet was really just a worthless clown in a coma.

Anne Frasier

#94. I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

Sandra Bullock

#95. Joy may not have any monetary value, but life is worthless without joy.

Debasish Mridha

#96. The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.

Dada Bhagwan

#97. There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

Mary Balogh

#98. Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life's uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

T. Davis Bunn

#99. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#100. Thing is, though, fear is worthless. It stops you when you need to keep moving most. And it only exists inside of your head.

Alexandra Bracken