There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

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

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will Rogers

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
William Shakespeare

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
Henry Ford