Worth Quotes

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Name, Principle

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

Action, Theory, Ounce

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin

Today, Two, Tomorrows

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Words, Picture, Thousand

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

Character, Ourselves, Turn

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

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

Work, End, Hard

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.
John Burroughs

Love, Work, Patience

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe

Money, Best, Give

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

Women, Men, Sentiment

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

Promises, Ounce, Pounds

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Lucky, Wealth

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.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Justice

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Success, Greatest, May

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

Single, Interest, Complete

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

War, Feeling, Nothing

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.
H. P. Lovecraft

Him, Enough, Opinion

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Good, Money

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Aim, Fortune

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll

Life, Others, Secrets

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

Life, Great, Times

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, May, Serious

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.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happiness, Live, Fight

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw

Enjoy, Makes, While

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, History, Left

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen

Work, Art, Before

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington

Work, Nothing, Hard

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

Life, History, Name

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

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