Quotes about worth
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“Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.”

Perry Moore (1971–2011) Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-winning LGBTQ young adult novel Hero

Life, Way, Decision, Chance

“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Variant: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Pain

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.”

Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States

Men, Country, Season

“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”

Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003) American author

“Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Source: Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures

Imagination

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist

Source: Deals with the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot

Truth, Music, Coffee, Solitude

“Relationships are always worth restoring.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

Life, Happiness, Understanding

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

Reba McEntire (1955) American country music artist and actress

Love, Chance

“He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

God, School, Boy

“… knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Rithmatist

Suffering

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Source: The Great Gatsby

“The sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's Philosophy

Love's Philosophy (1819), st. 2

Kiss, Sea

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
Context: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.

Love, Life, Beauty, Art

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Source: Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

Life

“These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.”

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)

Source: The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Men, Tear

“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”

Cynthia Lord Rules

Source: Rules

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

Life, World, Beauty, Nature

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Fear

“It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Thinking

“I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Hate

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Matchmaker (1954)

Money

“[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Life, Pleasure

“I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Thinking, Waiting

“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.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Happiness, World

“Love is a lesson worth learning.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Love, Learning

“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Money, Learning

“John?
As it was dark he whistled a what.
You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Fear

“Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.”

Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“You know, I would date, if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Truth, Beauty, Time, Fight

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

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Thinking

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”

Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author

Source: Letters to a Young Lawyer

God, Question

“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”

Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator

Source: Midwinterblood

Life, Betrayal, Perfection

“i shall imagine life
is not worth dying, if
(and when)roses complain
their beauties are in vain

but though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose, roses(you feel
certain)will only smile”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Life, Smile, Beauty, Feeling

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Life, Hope

“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“Any life worth living is going to have risks”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Life

“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

Men

“Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Cry

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

People

“If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Hope

“… it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen  <br class="br">Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Life, Suicide

“At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he
was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off.
Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Sex

“Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Learning, Training

“I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Happiness

“That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Personality, Country

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Chuck Norris (1940) American martial artist and actor

Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
Misattributed

Men, For Men

“… Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage."
"You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Money, God, Children

“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

Source: Save Me the Waltz

People, Reading

“For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Feeling, Hurt

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Love, Life

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Country

“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”

Tawni O'Dell book Back Roads

Source: Back Roads

Hate, Way

“My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth.

No, no. That was crazy talk.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Love, Question

“Every scar in my face is worth it.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.”

Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Fear, Thinking, Effort, Light

“Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Variant: ... I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

Way, Feeling