“In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Quotes about worth page 8
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Sonya Hartnett (1968) Australian writer
Source: The Ghost's Child
“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: How to Talk to a Widower
David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
Source: Shield of Thunder
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Source: The Palace of Illusions
“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
General sources
Source: Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
“There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Rat, Ch. 1
Variant: There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do.
“They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.”
Joanne Harris book The Gospel of Loki
Source: The Gospel of Loki
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: The Arkadians
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(, 1928)”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: Works of Elbert Hubbard
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: Cannibales
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”
John Fante book Ask the Dust
Source: Ask the Dust
“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: Finding Noel
“Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, “The Christian religion as a natural religion”
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793)
Context: He [Jesus] combines all duties (1) in one universal rule (which includes within itself both the inner and the outer moral relations of men), namely: Perform your duty for no motive other than unconditioned esteem for duty itself, i. e., love God (the Legislator of all duties) above all else; and (2) in a particular rule, that, namely, which concerns man’s external relation to other men as universal duty: Love every one as yourself, i. e., further his welfare from good-will that is immediate and not derived from motives of self-advantage. These commands are not mere laws of virtue but precepts of holiness which we ought to pursue, and the very pursuit of them is called virtue. Accordingly he destroys the hope of all who intend to wait upon this moral goodness quite passively, with their hands in their laps, as though it were a heavenly gift which descends from on high. He who leaves unused the natural predisposition to goodness which lies in human nature (like a talent entrusted to him) in lazy confidence that a higher moral influence will no doubt supply the moral character and completeness which he lacks, is confronted with the threat that even the good which, by virtue of his natural predisposition, he may have done, will not be allowed to stand him in stead because of this neglect (XXV, 29).
“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”
Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic
Source: Practical Magic
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VI, 3
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Source: The Zahir
“I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is
Variant: ... tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
Source: Where the Heart Is
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Fate's Edge
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Alexander Nehamas (1946) Professor of philosophy
Foreword to Alain Renaut, The Era of the Individual (1999), p. xi.
Bill Whittle (1959) author, director, screenwriter, editor
HISTORY https://web.archive.org/web/20030401221233/http://ejectejecteject.com/archives/000039.html (29 March 2003) <br class="br">2000s
“A worthy man is bound to suffer malice and envy: a man grows in worth so long as he is envied.”
Gottfried von Straßburg book Tristan
Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.
Source: Tristan, Line 8395
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Give
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Amos Yee (1998) blogger
Tumblr postings
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49