A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

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.
Bertrand Russell

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
Scott Adams

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Norman Mailer

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

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe