Quotes
Quotes about Worth
'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
The game is not worth the candle. [Fr., Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.]
(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring, And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
