Worth Quotes - page 8

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. (Edward Bellamy)
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. View quote
Pearl Bailey
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There buds the promise of celestial worth. View quote
Edward Young
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. View quote
Marie de France
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. View quote
Erich Fromm
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. (Eric Hoffer)
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. View quote
Homer
In Boston they ask, How much does he know In New York, How much is he worth In Philadelphia, Who were his parents. View quote
Mark Twain
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Where, where was Roderick then One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. View quote
Walter Scott
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. View quote
Arthur Miller
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. View quote
Alan Kay
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. View quote
Milan Kundera
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? View quote
Milan Kundera
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. View quote
Guy de Maupassant