Top 80 Worthless Quotes

In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless – undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.

I was always so engrossed with being successful that that was my worth and my identity. And then when things weren’t going well, I felt like I was worthless.

I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, ‘No, girl. You’re actually nailing it. All these things are great.’

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.

The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

We must never lose sight of the fact that shoes go on the feet, and if people can’t walk in them, they are worthless. Fashion designers who are not specialists need the help of technical people. We help decide the collections together.

I used to feel defensive when people would say, ‘Yes, but your books have happy endings’, as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it’s only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.

Just suppose that you could do a physical examination, not every year, which people do and which is almost worthless, but every minute, because you’re connected, and because we have devices that you can put on your body that measure virtually everything on your body.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly, consistently, and with intensity.

Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.

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.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless.

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

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive speech. It is an American value, and one well worth protecting.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it’s a pretty worthless endeavor.

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I’m very aware of how I’m constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn’t somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

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

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

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

After ‘X Factor,’ I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase – splurge and see that it’s worthless – to get it out of my system.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

That’s one reason why it’s pretty worthless, I can’t totally buy it, if you think about it, it’s things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

If you look at how much Hank Williams did by 29 years old, it makes you feel pretty worthless.

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn’t like it – it made me uncomfortable – so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, ‘All right, I’ll try acting again.’

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn’t happen.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can’t sing, then music is worthless.

There’s a period where you feel very hinky and low about yourself, like, ‘That was a lot of time, and there’s nothing to show for it.’ I’ve tried to tell myself that if you’re going to be a filmmaker, you can’t really talk like that about time, because you’ll hate yourself or feel very worthless.

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.

I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone!

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

One client’s wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband’s prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted ‘What’s that wine?’ dinner parties.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

I felt that I was worthless, that I was ugly, that I didn’t deserve anything. I thought people would think, ‘What have you got to be depressed about?’

I sometimes see People On The Internet decrying work-in-progress tweets and posts as worthless. ‘Measuring output by quantity rather than quality is dangerous,’ they say. ‘More work doesn’t mean better work!’

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

If someone tells you often enough you’re worthless, you start to believe it.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kinkade’s paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I’d love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade’s work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.