A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry

My shoes are worth more……than your house!

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

The future, for us, is not in bold and big deals. It is in selective deals, and I prefer to focus on one accretive target worth around €2 bn. than several deals worth €200 m.

Your species. You have a terrific capacity for effing things up. For hurting one another. For making the world a worse place. But then you invent something like ice cream. That makes up for a lot. Makes you worth rooting for.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

The kind of world I’m endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.

You don’t understand – there are things worth dying for!

Talking about muscles. They’re like pets basically. They’re not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don’t, they just go away. They run away.

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other’s worth

It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul

Even there in the midst of my belief that there was nothing worth salvaging, I could feel the truth of his words. Our circus act, begun at the Biltmore Hotel four years earlier, had mostly been a success. To admit as much, though, would be to undermine my argument. He would take the admission and twist it around in some way that would make him the victim and me the villain. I couldn’t say what I knew: that I was the villain, too

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

You’re incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Not every book has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth reading.

But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

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

valThe value of an idea lies in the using of it

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have

I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what’s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don’t think they know. And I can’t see any authority on the horizon that’s got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health

Life ain’t always easy, but it’s always worth it.

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

A man at the race track is worth two anywhere else.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Education…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

Criticism is worth so much more than compliments.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Let your name be worth more than your bank account.

Trees are worth more alive than dead.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

The most important lesson I’ve learned in the kitchen is to have patience. Good food takes time, and it’s worth the wait.

It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

The prime truth of woman, the universal mother…that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won’t make you cry.

There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive – it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don’t take any chances. It just isn’t worth it.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

You’ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing

The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

You reflect that he is worth twenty thousand dollars, and you incur no risk by endorsing his note; you like to accommodate him, and you lend your name without taking the precaution of getting security. Shortly after, he shows you the note with your endorsement canceled, and tells you, probably truly, that he made the profit that he expected by the operation, you reflect that you have done a good action, and the thought makes you feel happy. By and by, the same thing occurs again and you do it again; you have already fixed the impression in your mind that it is perfectly safe to indorse his notes without security.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness. I have no judgment about myself and my life

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart

I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod — and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindnesses to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unavailing regrets and remorse were being indulged: and best of all, the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned. This was fine. It was worth being a pirate, after all.

Except experience, mine, for what it’s worth, And that’s enough me.

Your dreary rhyming isn’t worth a turd!

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy

Your life is worth much more than gold

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

Take me or leave me I’ll never be perfect. Believe me, I’m worth it.

Spoke some things into the universe and they appeared, I say it’s worth it, I won’t say it’s fair. Find your purpose or you wastin’ air

It’s better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes if you’re hated by the right people.

Nothing life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water

Life and death, energy and peace, if i stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes, that I have made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked. Which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above…” Gia Marie Carangi 1960-1986

Young man, make your name worth something

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.

We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.

The value is in the worth, not in the number

Adventure is worthwhile in itself

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.

A just cause even from an enemy is a cause not without its worth

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Dreams worth more than money.

Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don’t need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

I think that music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer no matter what race or religion or nationality, sexual orientation, gender that you are it has the power to unite us.

There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

The ultimate form of disrespect is to dismiss someone’s worth and value.