Worth Quotes - page 16

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. (Ross Perot)
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. View quote
George Herbert
Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you. View quote
Henry Rollins
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for and dying for, if need be is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, - this makes life worth living. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth. View quote
Trinny Woodall
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. View quote
Norman Lamont
No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. View quote
John Vanbrugh
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them. (Bertrand Russell)
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. View quote
Henry Fielding
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy. View quote
George Chapman
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people. View quote
David Harvey
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny. View quote
Howard Stern
If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth knowing anyways. View quote
Bill Watterson
If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from. (Roméo Dallaire)
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution. View quote
Paul Cézanne
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. View quote
Gregory Benford
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.