Quotes with worth

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  • Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alain de Botton There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • James Boswell There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Harold Wallace Ross Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
    Harold Wallace Ross
    American journalist and founder of The New Yorker (1892 - 1951)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • William James This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alice James Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bernadette Devlin To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
    The Price of My Soul
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Sir William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Aeschylus To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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