Definition of Worthless

Worthless

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.

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Worthless Quotations

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

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

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

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka

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.
Lewis Mumford

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
Neil Abercrombie

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

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

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

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Arthur Wellesley

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

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.
Hesiod

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.
Lester Bangs

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric

Awareness without action is worthless.
Phil McGraw

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne

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

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
William Goldman

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Worthless Translations

worthless in Dutch is waardeloos, nietswaardig, voos
worthless in French is riquiqui
worthless in German is wertlos
worthless in Italian is senza valore
worthless in Latin is nequam
worthless in Spanish is baladi, sin valor

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