Quotes
Quotes about Worth
Learn to pause--or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
A doctor saves lives--it's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
