Famous Worth Quotes

I have been worth the whistle. O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
-- William Shakespeare

'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
-- Homer

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in anything, But so much money as 't will bring?
-- Samuel Butler

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
-- William Alexander

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
-- Henry David Thoreau

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
-- Edmund Waller

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
-- Senegalese Proverb

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
-- Frederic R Marvin

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
-- Harriet Lerner

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
-- Benjamin Franklin

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- John D Rockefeller

I care not twopence.
-- Francis Beaumont

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
-- William Shakespeare

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
-- Gaelic Proverb

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

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
-- Chinese Proverb

In native worth and honour clad.
-- Franz Joseph Haydn