Quotes about worth

"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."

Bailey, Pearl on worth   

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

Chesterfield, Lord on worth   

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Dickens, Charles on worth
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"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

Edison, Thomas A. on worth
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"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."

Fielding, Henry on worth   

"The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on worth   

"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

James, William on worth   

"If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion."

Lin-Chi on worth   

"Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us."

Nightingale, Earl on worth   

"We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry."

Proverb, Scottish on worth
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"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing."

Robertson, Frederick W. on worth   

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Rockefeller, John D. on worth   

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Rogers, Will on worth   

"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."

Santayana, George on worth   

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"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."

Schwartz, Elias on worth   

"The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."

Smith, Adam on worth   

"All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear."

Thoreau, Henry David on worth   

"Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be."

Unknown, Source on worth
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"Nothing is worth making that does not make the man."

Unknown, Source on worth   

"When the well's dry, they know the worth of water."

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"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."

Waitley, Denis on worth