Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~By Erich Fromm ~
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.
~By Ethan Suplee ~
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.
~By Picabo Street ~
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~By Henry Rollins ~
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
~By Ted Koppel ~
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
~By Mark Strand ~
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
~By David Zucker ~
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.
~By Jim McCrery ~
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
No one can figure out your worth but you.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
~By John Ruskin ~
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
~By John Irving ~
The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
~By Robert Toombs ~
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.
~By Tommy Bolin ~
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
~By Iain Banks ~
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.
~By Wim Wenders ~
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~By David Attenborough ~
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
~By Derek Walcott ~
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
~By Patrick Henry ~
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~By John Ruskin ~
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
~By Herbert Read ~
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
~By Camille Paglia ~
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
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.
~By Kenneth Baker ~
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
~By Bill Bowerman ~
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
~By Steven Tyler ~
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
A book worth reading is worth buying.
~By John Ruskin ~
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
~By John Gould ~
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
~By Brian Tracy ~
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~By Edward de Bono ~
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
~By Hu Shih ~
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~By Claude Bernard ~
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
~By Voltairine de Cleyre ~
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
~By Karl Marx ~
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
~By Richard Owen Cambridge ~
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
~By Hart Crane ~
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
~By Ovid ~
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
~By Charles Guggenheim ~
It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.
~By Danny Elfman ~
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
~By William Penn ~
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
~By Joyce Appleby ~
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
~By Rollo May ~
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
~By George Washington Carver ~
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
~By Edward Teller ~
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
~By Mark Kelly ~
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
~By Meir Kahane ~
The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it.
~By Parmedides ~
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
~By Lady Gaga ~
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
~By Barack Obama ~
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