Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
~By Philip Levine ~
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
~By Robert Lynd ~
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
~By Asa Gray ~
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
~By John W. Thompson ~
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
~By Tyrone Power ~
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
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 ~
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
~By Mort Sahl ~
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
~By James Spader ~
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
~By George Whitefield ~
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
~By Robert Southey ~
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
~By Lin Biao ~
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
~By Lucian Freud ~
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
~By James Newman ~
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 ~
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
~By Dirk Benedict ~
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 ~
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
~By Henry Ford ~
No one can figure out your worth but you.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
~By Donald Fagen ~
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 ~
Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
~By Donna Mills ~
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.
~By John Anderson ~
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
~By John Mason Brown ~
I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
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 ~
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
~By Rob Mariano ~
Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
~By Art Spiegelman ~
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~By Frank Serpico ~
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
Awareness without action is worthless.
~By Phil McGraw ~
A thing well done is worth doing.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
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 ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
~By David R. Brower ~
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
~By J. W. Eagan ~
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
~By Steve Lacy ~
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
~By Edward Steichen ~
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
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 ~
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
~By Edward Coke ~
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
~By Don Marquis ~
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 ~
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
~By Susan Collins ~
The data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global warming are so rough and primitive, compared to what's needed, and so unreliable that they are not even worth mentioning by respectful scientists.
~By Gregory W. Moore ~
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
~By Stephen Rea ~
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
~By Lynn Swann ~
Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.
~By Howard Stern ~
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 ~
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
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