#worth

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#baby #black #born #challenge #child

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#baseball #card #could #i #i always

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #brave #confidence #independence #loving-yourself

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#comfort #else #engaged #enjoy #established

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#discovers #gives #him #himself #incitement

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#effort #ever #expect #minute #moment

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#almost #fort #grew #had #hail

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. ↗

— Bum Phillips

#darn #does #except #kinds #never

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#difficult #effort #great #great art #never